Re: What BACKPORT means ?

From: David <darussell_at_msn.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 23:23:37 +0100
Message-ID: <urBoRkhd9GA.196@uppubnews03>

Oracle is a generic product and thier base development group makes fixes to the base code, once this fix has been made a customer can request a backport to an earlier release on thier platform. The base code is dual developed in Sun Solaris and Intel NT.

Regards
David Russell

Dmitry Blinoff wrote in message <01bd7331$829f4670$0a00a8c0_at_dmitry-nt>...
>Hello !
>
>I found the following string in README.txt from Oracle patch
>and don't know what it means :
>
>Backport Description
>----------------------
>473039 Please backport 362688 to 7.3.3 on Windows NT 4.0
>
>Can anyone explain what backport means and what should I actually do ?
>
>Dmitry, dbprok_at_ropnet.ru
Received on Sat May 02 1998 - 17:23:37 CDT