Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:37:55 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT is bad for me... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010212162702.5225B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200102122119.f1CLJaW31538@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > To be blunt, the FILE * changes go too far, even for -current. Other than having to installworld twice, I've had zero problems. But I don't recompile my applications often, and am probably still running things that depend on libc.so.4. > Changes of this magnitude require a bump of the major number, even > though we've already done that in -current. It breaks nearly > everything, including the upgrade path. Alternatively, the locking > changes need to be backed out. Too bad ELF libraries don't have minor version numbers. It's a shame to waste a library version number. > Alternatively, the upgrade path must be fixed. We've managed to avoid > extra special instructions in the vast majority of cases, and I don't > want to start introducing them now. It is the road to madness. We > tried that once before and the support load was too high. I don't have the time or resources to fix the upgrade path. If someone else wants to, it would certainly be appreciated. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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