[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-06-19 09:56, clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> That was the intent. The big thing we did was fix a long-standing bug that preventing booting on a particular i4 blade memory configuration.
> 
> When you guys announced you managed to do a build of 8.4 from the
> sources HP gave you, would it be correct to state that this included not
> only VMS but also all the layered products that you inherited that are
> still "alive" ?
> 
> And and you did that first build from the sources you got from HP, I
> take it that that build would have included all those small fixes HP did
> but never released ?
> 
> 

I believe that was already mentioned by Robert Brooks.

Bugs get fixed, in the sources, but never sent out as patches and such, 
other than to whomever filed the support request.  So, when you rebuild 
the sources, all the fixes are there.

As for knowing you have a problem, but not distributing the fix to users 
other than the one who filed the support request, well, I find that 
rather disgusting.  Why?  Because other users could spend significant 
time trying to find out what's going wrong before filing a support request.