Distribution of bugfixes (was: Re: The Internet Virus--Another issue)

[Snoopy T. Beagle]

In article <1988Nov19.235026.29419 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|In article <2490 at aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> trn at aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) writes:
|>I don't wish to pick on SUN alone.  It would sure be nice if vendors could
|>maintain a system on the network, reachable via anonymous ftp, containing
|>the patched sources/objects/binaries for bugs found in their operating
|>systems...
|
|There would be some small licensing problems with this, given that not
|everybody on the network is licensed for the same stuff.

There could be a seperate account for each package, and the login/password
could be supplied with the package.  A bit more work this way, but probably
less than FedEx-ing tapes all over creation.  You'd probably want both a ftp
version and a uucp version with an 800 number.

This still leaves the problem of making sure all the sites know about the
bugfix.  :-(
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