Date: Mon, 10 Nov 97 15:11:02 -0800 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "FreeBSD Stable List" <FreeBSD-Stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Old stuff in 2.2.5 Message-ID: <199711102311.PAA22738@dragonlair.dal.net>
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First off, I want to emphasize that this is NOT a troll. I'm fully aware of the debates about the legacy stuff in -stable, and I don't want to re-open that can of worms. What I AM intersted in is learning which parts of -stable are out of date (in your opinion, I reserve final judgement :) and how I can replace them in the easiest possible way. My reasons for asking this is that with any kind of luck, I'm going to be installing FreeBSD systems on a commercial level, so I want the best, most secure systems possible, with the fewest steps. The two main things I know about are Perl and curses, so with that in mind, I have the following questions. PLEASE, keep all responses flame free and on topic. Thanks for any help offered, Doug 1. What part or parts of the 2.2.5-Stable code (or 22_releng if you prefer) do *you* consider out of date, and why? 2. What disadvantages does this out of date component (or components) cause? [I'm aware of the perl problems, but I would love some details on curses.] 3. What advantage would importing a new version of that component offer? 4. Is there an easy way to replace the version of that code that comes with -stable with the newer version *before* I do make world, so that I don't need to replace or recompile things in a second step after the make world is done. 5. Related to question 4, I am particularly interested in replacing perl 4 entirely, since I'm short on hd space (yes I know it's cheap nowadays, but I'm broke :). Can anyone tell me if replacing the perl sources that come from the /src directory on the ftp site with perl 5 will accomplish this, or if I'll have to install perl 5 after the make world. Also, assuming I will have to do it in 2 steps, what's the easiest way to delete all of perl 4? *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,168 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***
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