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Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:02:16 -0500

Hi Geoff,
Geoff Savage wrote:

How do I determine which patches I need for R3.14.8.2?
1. Look in the known problems for R3.14.8.2 and apply the patches there.

Yup, and also check the later Known Problems pages just in case. The
patches mentioned may not all be necessary depending on what features
you actually use, but I to try and keep the Known Problems list *for the
latest release* up to date with all of the essential bug fixes that
apply to that release. If you're using an older release there may be
issues described in the newer Known Problems pages so you should look at
them too â the applicability of a patch is usually discussed when the
problem it fixes is known to exist in earlier versions too.
2. How do I determine which Mantis entries apply to this base release?

Andrew Johnson gave a talk at DESY which seemed to say that mantis
entries 282 and 288 are essential.

I was talking about R3.14.9 when I mentioned those particular entries,
they do not apply to R3.14.8.2 (#282 specifically says so, and I'm
fairly sure this is true of #288 as well since Jeff had been working in
that area for the 3.14.9 release). You can look for particular entries
that mention 3.14.8.2 using the search facility on the Mantis "View
Bugs" page; make sure you have the "Hide Closed" check-box un-checked.
This won't necessarily tell you that later entries don't also apply too
though; unfortunately that's not an easy problem to solve without making
extra work for the already stretched maintainers, but that's why I try
to keep that information in the Known Problems pages.
- Andrew
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