Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:17:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, ataraxia@cox.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING Message-ID: <3DCC3813.1833DD83@mindspring.com> References: <20021108.092732.124899267.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10211081205020.27766-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <20021108174915.GA71225@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20021108181611.GA90784@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> +-------[ Steve Kargl ]----------------------
> |
> | I agree with Dan. Let's do it now. My understanding is
> | that 5.0 will be an "early adopter" release and production
> | systems should run 4.7{8,9,..} until 5.1 is released.
> |
> | To accomplish the change, I think we need to do:
> | 1. Install a complete set of 4.7 shared libs in COMPAT4X.
> | This should porivde the necessary runtime compatibility
> | with 4.x.
> | 2. Bump all shared library on 5.0. This will get rid of
> | any interdependencies among the libraries and it deals
> | with the version number problems I detailed in the thread
> | "Ghost of __sF ..." a couple a days ago.
> | 3. Put a big fat WARNING in src/UPDATING about the problem
> | 4. Put the same WARNING in /etc/motd, so people currently
> | run -current will know to update their ports.
> | 5. Broadcast the WARNING to appropriate mailing lists and
> | newsgroups.
>
> 6. Assume Crash Position.
7. Profit!
-- Terry
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