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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:37:46 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reasons for 64-bTT & DHCP import
Message-ID:  <p06020419bc7e5827e15c@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20040317023908.GA56755@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20040314210709.GA6482@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200403151528.i2FFSe602853@netlx014.civ.utwente.nl> <20040315161833.GA10855@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <xzp3c8adq8c.fsf@dwp.des.no> <p06020414bc7d6996f710@[128.113.24.47]> <20040317023908.GA56755@xor.obsecurity.org>

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At 6:39 PM -0800 3/16/04, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 16, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  >
>>  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.
>
>It's possible the base system version has an incorrect configuration
>file; these are typically generated statically by the person who
>does the import, so they can sometimes become stale when new
>versions are imported, or perhaps a sparc64 version was never
>imported in the first place.

Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>I committed a ton of patches to the port last night, including
>one that should fix the 64-bit time_t issue.

This is excellent to see.  Thanks!  Hopefully that will go a long
way to fixing the problems that people are seeing, and then we
can get the same fixes into the base-system version.

-- 
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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