🚀 go-pugleaf

For the last several years I have been maintaining a WAIS database
containing Sun patch descriptions.  It has had quite a lot of use over
the last few years, but pressures to reduce my diskspace usage have
forced me to take the database down.  Also, given that I now work for
a company which has a Sun service contract, there is an issue about
whether I should be maintaining such a database (I must stress,
however, that all patch descriptions came from the net, not from my
sunsolve access).

Being a bit of a packrat, I cannot bring myself to remove the
data without at least giving other people a chance to take it.  It
would be nice if someone continued to collect the patches and make
them available for searching.

So, I have 2875 patch descriptions, 1730 of which relate to unique
patch id's (the rest being earlier versions of patches).  The data
ranges from patch id 100000 to patch id 103250.  The full archive is
31Mb, and when only the latest of each patch id is counted, it's
around 16Mb (both uncompressed).

(for anyone interested in knowing what patch id 100000 was:)

Patch-ID# 100000-01
Keywords: atrun at bad spool header
Synopsis:'at' jobs never get run (atrun fails)
Date: 22-Jun-88
SunOS release: 3.5

I also have my perl scripts which troll a bunch of ftp sites for new
patches, retrieves them, and extracts the README file from the patch
archives.

If anyone wants this data, and the software, please contact me within
the next week or so.  Please email me, as I may not get much chance to
read news in the next week or so (another reason why I'm stopping
maintaining the database :-)

rik.
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Rik Harris
Dept. of Robotics and Digital Technology (Alumni)
Monash University, Clayton
rik@rdt.monash.edu.au