From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 12:52:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B5716A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:52:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fillmore.dyndns.org (port-212-202-50-15.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.50.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D4243D39 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:52:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) Received: from [172.16.0.13] (helo=localhost) by fillmore.dyndns.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1BevcJ-0003ow-4g; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:52:32 +0200 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:52:28 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu From: Oliver Eikemeier In-Reply-To: <40DF1768.4060504@alumni.rice.edu> Message-Id: <03505AD2-C902-11D8-9FE1-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 cc: Divacky Roman cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:52:33 -0000 Jon Noack wrote: > 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 because they are outdated etc...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... Seems like Christos has been swamped by readelf.c patches :) I must admit that I didn't care about 4.6.2... Anyway, 4.09 is an improvement, and the import of 4.10 should be trivial afterwards, so why wait? -Oliver