Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:26:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still need portmap(8)? Message-ID: <3DA5E28B.9FE40AE1@mindspring.com> References: <3DA1F203.6CD50B5C@mindspring.com> <200210072127.58523.dzerkel@columbus.rr.com> <3DA498EA.C7BF77A@mindspring.com> <200210092354.24718.dzerkel@columbus.rr.com>
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"Danny J. Zerkel" wrote: > Sigh... there should be a file listing incompatible files that is part of > the source tree. Every file in this list would be deleted as a pre-install > step. Perl would not have been in this list because it was not > incompatible. But the old C++ headers clearly were. There have > no doubt been other instances of incompatible files in the installation > or examples of files moving. It will happen to any software system > and should be accounted for in the installation mechanism. 1) It has to be a post-install, in case the install fails, part way through. 2) It has to be optional: the user has to specifically ask for the deletion; that way, most of us can ignore it. 3) Feel free to get together with Warner Losh on this, and submit the code. > > Personally, I suggest a file "/etc/BUILD" be created to contain > > the CVS tag and a timestamp indicating the checkout time, created > > as part of the build process (maybe the tag from the output of a > > "CVS stat" on the Makefile in /usr/src, processed to deal with > > sticky tags, and the date stamp on the file itself, otherwise). > > Yuck. Let's NOT not use CVS (Cantakerous Version Scrambler) tags. Feel free to use whatever you want, so long as the value can be used as an input to a process which will result in the binaries for the system being recreated identically, except for date stamps. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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