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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:34:30 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reasons for 64-bTT & DHCP import
Message-ID:  <p06020414bc7d6996f710@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <xzp3c8adq8c.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <20040314210709.GA6482@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200403151528.i2FFSe602853@netlx014.civ.utwente.nl> <20040315161833.GA10855@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <xzp3c8adq8c.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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At 5:33 PM +0100 3/15/04, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
>>  I don't think there are specific reasons not to upgrade.
>
>I have one: the version in the base system is the exact same as
>that in the ports tree, and it's broken beyond belief on 64-bit
>systems.  I posted a patch to this list a few weeks ago for this
>specific issue, but there are probably other, more deeply hidden
>ones.

Hmm.  The version in ports seemed to work fairly reliably in
my limited testing.  The version in the base system almost never
worked for me, so I assumed they were different.

Reminder: I have not been looking into the problems with dhcp
vs 64-bTT.  I hope someone else is...

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =3D   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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