Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:45:21 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>, Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binary files in src tree Message-ID: <200401120845.21389.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20040112135305.GB94632@madman.celabo.org> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040111174309.04327900@imap.sfu.ca> <20040112135305.GB94632@madman.celabo.org>
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On Monday 12 January 2004 05:53 am, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:48:19PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> > While browsing the FreeBSD src tree, I came across a number of
> > binary files (listed below); the regression tests are perhaps
> > understandable, but shouldn't the rest of these files be uuencoded?
> >
> > tools/regression/usr.bin/uudecode/regress.out
> > tools/regression/usr.bin/uuencode/regress.in
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Those that are found in src/contrib/ and src/crypto/, at least, should
> not be touched. However, it seems likely that some or all of them in
> that case are not actually used in FreeBSD. Those that are not used
> should perhaps be removed. I'll put reviewing the src/crypto/openssl/
> cases on my todo list for the next import.
The two binary files used to test uuencode/uudecode should NOT be
uuencoded, for obvious reasons.
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Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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