From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 8 14:19:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0C437B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F151643E42 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0224.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.224] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18AHTA-0002LV-00; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:19:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCC3813.1833DD83@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:17:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: Steve Kargl , Daniel Eischen , "M. Warner Losh" , ataraxia@cox.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING References: <20021108.092732.124899267.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021108174915.GA71225@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20021108181611.GA90784@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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