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On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:37, Frank wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about using the CARP patchset
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/CARP/20040823-carp.RELENG_5.diff
>
> and porting it back to RELENG_4.
>
> Before I start doing that, I want to check first, if this is an
> accomplishable goal. So, my question is, does anybody know a reason (eg.
> major incompatibility beteen FreeBSD 4.x and FreeBSD 5.x) that makes this
> task difficult or even impossible? Or can this be done easily enough????

You will certainly have some API gaps to fill. Some will be very obvious (a=
s=20
you will just hit undefined functions) some will be more disturbing as=20
functions may act differently. All in all it should be doable. Yet with a=20
certain amount of work.

That said, I don't see the point. RELENG_4 is past now, hail to RELENG_5 :-)

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