Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:52:24 -0500 From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> Subject: Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base Message-ID: <40DF1768.4060504@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040627170243.GA61973@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20040627170243.GA61973@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 06/27/04 12:02, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote: >> 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 because they are outdated etc...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. Don't import until FILE 4.10 is released. I've submitted a patch to Christos Zoulas for inclusion in 4.10 that *greatly* increases the accuracy of FILE for FreeBSD. As soon as I see FILE 4.10 released (with my patch), I'll be pleading for an import... Included in the patch is correct detection of 4.10+ (4.10 -> __FreeBSD_version = 491000) and printing of the __FreeBSD_version value for executable built on a development branch. Output of the patch for a wide range of test cases: http://www.noacks.org/freebsd/output.txt The submitted patch: http://www.noacks.org/freebsd/readelf.c.diff If you want to run this now (a patch against the version in tree): http://www.noacks.org/freebsd/readelf.c.diff-freebsd Note that the -freebsd version of the patch is functionally the same as the submitted patch but does not contain the updated comments. Jonhelp
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