Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:19:11 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: kwc@world.std.com Subject: Re: cvsup package versions/questions Message-ID: <200110231519.f9NFJBu46679@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200110181548.LAA07042@world.std.com> References: <200110181548.LAA07042@world.std.com>
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In article <200110181548.LAA07042@world.std.com>, Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com> wrote: > > Which is the "correct" (canonical?) version of cvsup (binary) > we should be using? Anything that is labeled as version 16.1e and that comes from a source that you trust. > From where should we be getting it? (My guess would be "nearest > ftp-mirror" ?) It really doesn't matter, functionally. > Is/are the gui-versions of cvsup "supersets" of the non-gui > versions? (i.e. will the gui-version(s) all work in non-gui > (-g) mode?) Yes and yes. > JDP's site has non-gui & gui versions, the gui-version being > bigger, of course. But the various package-archive sites have > a version that's bigger still. All these packages have the > same name (cvsup-16.1e.tgz). The size differences are just caused by slightly different linking methods. The largest ones (the ones in the official package archives) are linked fully static. The ones on my web page were built specially so they are statically linked against the Modula-3 libraries but dynamically linked against the FreeBSD system libraries. Hence they are smaller, but still don't require you to install Modula-3. They were built that way because that's just how I happened to have Modula-3 configured on my system when I built them. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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