From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 5 16:12:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05868131 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkeramidas@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com (mail-wg0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA94B34 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id fg15so5844769wgb.13 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:12:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to; bh=wjTJrnYajxbfhffgvh6hAYdzAetiijaPKJt2JblqjgA=; b=OhDKO4Qb7BHurG0IFC6KXprc6C5vslRqvZI5potcInsprwJPLaSXRKgEDOi4S7JfWU 7eFULLAOBnvWe4b4PIEGuoFOWCLaG77zFed4YZTGiG2EFp28uwgOaBKUrC4Oir4Olx0r WtaYHP7bsRX/UHJin8raAPt68+DliklQFTwTP1ZzUJRZfR3IuFJ5YSlM5tHz2HM4Ph1B +BGiISv5NUgXP4VBs/nOzR6fQKogp4jM5nR312DcySHWwK+3S3rZFdoNqrKU1/VDt9ei aTWiFaO1Yq92gZiq4H/+DjnId9lQ0ZkU90nnDgDJHY50qh+p0UYUapgqTvr3tY/97GY3 rWkw== X-Received: by 10.180.103.65 with SMTP id fu1mr19992578wib.4.1362499929326; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn (217-162-217-29.dynamic.hispeed.ch. [217.162.217.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q13sm22283004wie.0.2013.03.05.08.12.06 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:12:08 -0800 (PST) Sender: Giorgos Keramidas Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:12:04 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: KrisUniverse Subject: Re: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind? Message-ID: <20130305161158.GB9376@saturn> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:12:11 -0000 On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse wrote: > The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R. > > However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping through > 1.2.5, 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 with bug fixes. > > Is there any reason for not using Zlib 1.2.7? I don't have a 9.1-RELEASE system nearby, but I think zlib 1.2.7 _should_ already be there... Are you sure it's still an old version? The zlib on /head is 1.2.7, merged from the vendor branch on 2012-06-21. | % svn log --limit 1 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libz | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r237410 | delphij | 2012-06-21 23:47:08 +0200 (Πεμ, 21 Ιον 2012) | 8 lines | | MFV: Update zlib to 1.2.7. | | (x86 assembler optimization disabled for now because it | requires the new .cfi_* directives that is not supported | by base system binutils). | | MFC after: 1 week This was later merged to 9.1-STABLE after about a week of burn-in on /head: | % svn log --limit 1 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/lib/libz | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r237691 | delphij | 2012-06-28 09:08:48 +0200 (Πεμ, 28 Ιον 2012) | 2 | lines | | MFC r237410: zlib 1.2.7. Then the 9.1-RELEASE branch was copied from releng/9.1 on 2012-12-03, long after the MFC of zlib 1.2.7 to the stable/9 branch. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r243808 | kensmith | 2012-12-03 06:03:33 +0100 (Δευ, 03 Δεκ 2012) | 4 lines | | Copy releng/9.1 to release/9.1.0 as part of 9.1-RELEASE. | | Approved by: re (implicit) I'm confused now. By tracking down these commits in our svn repository I would expect libz on 9.1-RELEASE to be version 1.2.7.