> Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> writes:
>
> >> I see we have 2.11BSD patch 469 dated last month in the archive. Where
> >> does it come from? Has anybody climbed the hill to import all the
> >> patches into a git repo?
> >
> > I know somebody tried a while back and reported here. They found it wasn't
> > possible to apply all the patches sequentially. I'd have to go look in
> > the mail archive for details.
> >
> > Maybe it's time for someone else to have a go!
> >
> > Cheers, Warren
>
> Stumbled upon this email thread while searching my inbox for some patch
> info. I've managed to setup an automated pipeline for applying all
> patches sequentially, producing a new disk image after each one. This
> has been built as a GitHub workflow, and the images are then pushed up
> to an S3 bucket for others to use.
>
> https://github.com/AaronJackson/2.11BSD-Action
>
> At the very least, it is confirmation and verification that the released
> patches can be applied sequentially, and each one leaves the system in a
> bootable state, if applied correctly.
>
> I've also been applying the patches to a fork of the source tree on
> GitHub which Warner Losh created (maybe after this email thread). I've
> been doing this in the patch-apply2023 branch but it's a bit of a mess
> at the moment and doesn't build. The repo also includes an IBV11 card
> driver which I wrote with the help of Toby Thain. I'm not sure whether
> Steven would welcome patches for new features, rather than bug fixes,
> but I'd be happy to generate a patch file if others wanted to control
> their "modern" test gear from their PDP11.
>
> https://github.com/AaronJackson/2.11BSD
>
> At some point I'm planning to automate the process of generating the
> installation tapes for each patch level. Not got round to this though,
> yet - although it's Easter weekend, so I might have a play.
Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> Any chance you could extend this to my work to recreate the 2.11 as
> released tapes? There are extra challenges in the first 200 patches,
> including missing patches...
>
> Warner
If you are talking about this:
https://github.com/bsdimp/mk211bsd
I'll take a look and see - that does sound like a mess to sort out
though :D
Yes. It's why I've not done it yet. Going backwards was hard enough :) I'd love to help, but don't have the time to drive it.
Warner