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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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