From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 27 17:02:46 2004 Return-Path: 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 8041E16A4D6 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:02:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F7643D5A for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:02:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5RH2j8V062067; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:02:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5RH2hWY062066; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:02:43 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Divacky Roman Message-ID: <20040627170243.GA61973@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Divacky Roman , current@freebsd.org References: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:02:47 -0000 On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote: > Hi, > > I digged through our base system and looked for versions of contributed > soft. I found these program which could (and I think should) be easily > and painlessly upgraded (before 5.3 as 5-STABLE) because they are > outdated etc... these are: > > file - 3.41 -> 4.09 > Painless upgrade and the benefit is much newer magic file > ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ Only semi-painless. The code and how it is built has changed around a lot, else I would have upgraded it by now. That said, in progress; but lower priority than my toolchain work. And why does this have to happen before 5-STABLE? I can certainly MFC something like this. > ntp, 4.1.0 -> 4.2.0 Another one which cannot hurt to have up-to-date > and also I dont see reason why this shouldnt be painless (4.2.0 > includes openssl - benefit) http://ntp.org IIRC, ntp upgrades are never totally pain free. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)