10 Feb
2017
10 Feb
'17
10:11 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Jacob Goense <dugo(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 2017-02-09 11:14, Warner Losh wrote:
That was actually part of the agreement with AT&T to end the hostilities.
NetBSD did it by butchery. FreeBSD did it by reimporting from 4.4lite,
basically (the basically part is a bit messy).
I thought someone had posted a github project to merge the history of
all publicly available sources of unix.
That's the thing, it banks on what is publicly available.
NetBSD and FreeBSD both started out from 386BSD + patchkits. They threw
it is cvs, and engineered a release.
This was all, in essence, Net/2 based, then the USL vs. BSDi lawsuit
kicked in and was settled by a.o. "encumbering" Net/2 by agreement.
Panic ensued and the NetBSD and FreeBSD teams took a chainsaw against
what they had released until then. The publicly available repos from that period are
butchered.
True. I had thought the original FreeBSD 1 repo was now publicly
available. I know I can get copies of it as a FreeBSD project member.
The number of people on earth trying to curate stuff
like the history
of locore.s/tty.c between 386BSD and the reboots of Net/FreeBSD is a
handfull, and I'm being optimistic here.
Yea, the FreeBSD CVS tree I think has that history. It started out
life trying to make the patch-kit to 386BSD make sense as dealing with
a boatload of patches soon grew unwieldy as the number proliferated
and you started getting patches on patches.
This stuff has been deliberately purged and hard to
find. Jason Stevens
went as far as reconstructing a NetBSD 0.8 kernel because the complete
sources where nowhere to be found. Then he ran into the proverbial
coughing, chain smoking guy in a raincoat in a parking garage with
a manilla folder of a CD-ROM of
ftp://agate.berkeley.edu/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.8,
or was it a forgotten ftp site?
Don't know anything about that... But the Truth is Out There.
Anyway, the revision history of the
"encumbered" pieces in NetBSD is
probably lost, but at least the 0.8 checkpoint was unearthed.
I thought it was just shielded from public view and many of the NetBSD
folks had copies. Could be wrong though.
If you take a close look at the publicly available
revision history of
FreeBSD you'll notice some serious gaps as well. Someone went through
that cvs with an axe or surgical knife for legal reasons (and made a mess
teleporting AMD64 to the early 90s).
Yea, CVS doesn't support repo-copying for crap. But it was done to go
from i386 to amd64.
What dspinellis did with git is truly awesome. But I
see the scars the
USL vs. BSDi lawsuit made. I have no idea why I care, but I do. I respect
that not everything can be made publicly available, but I pray stuff
such as an original FreeBSD revision history is at least dumped into
hidden archives like Warren and friends keep until the time is right.
The old CTM archives might have stuff, it that was up and running
before the lawsuit.
I know that the FreeBSD 1 archive exists in multiple places.
Compressed it is 18MB, or 185MB uncompressed (clang's history is
bigger than that, though checked out it is only about 131MB).
Warner