Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:55:07 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t snapshot? Message-ID: <20040216225507.GB16645@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20040216214653.GB23832@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20040216214653.GB23832@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:46:53PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: > > After 5.2.1-RELEASE is loaded on ftp-master I could try doing a > snapshot build for sparc64 that has the 64-bit time_t stuff incorporated > into it. That way *if* someone trashes a machine trying to do the > upgrade (by all reports Garance's instructions are really good :-) > they could load off this snapshot instead of off 5.2.1-RELEASE and > re-attempting the upgrade. > > Does this seem worth doing? Yes, definitely. It gives people a chance to move forward rather than to revert. > I could see about providing the same basic > set of packages that normally come on disc1 pre-built on a 64-bit time_t > system as part of this. Normally portmgr@ does the package builds > for the releases so I haven't needed to do any of those yet but I > think I know how... I wouldn't worry about that too much. It's probably more confusing to provide 64-bit time_t packages alongside the official packages. I would suggest we push for making the 64-bit time_t official and let the package stuff sort itself out automaticly. > If this is worth doing, any thoughts on whether it would be best to > base it on 5.2.1-RELEASE (plus just the time_t change) or would it > be better to try and catch a -current that seems stable? I would go for -current. That way any preparatory commits (like the realclean target) do not have to be backported. > The release > building procedure I've been doing needs to suck everything out of a > CVS repo as it builds the release so I'd need to freeze a copy of the > repo and add in the time_t change to it locally for this snapshot build. A timestamp (pick feb 13 :-) does the trick nicely. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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