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Date:      Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:29:41 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, deischen@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, yar@comp.chem.msu.su
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen fts-compat.c fts-compat.h
Message-ID:  <200708271529.42264.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070827190100.GY87451@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20070824215515.GF16131@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200708270850.20904.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070827190100.GY87451@elvis.mu.org>

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On Monday 27 August 2007 03:01:00 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> [070827 05:48] wrote:
> > 
> > I think it will be confusing to have missing symbols just as folks would
> > have thought it confusing to have 6.x ship with libc.so.8 if we had
> > bumped libc multiple times.  I also think that just managing the
> > interfaces that show up in releases and -stable branches will be enough
> > extra bookkeeping to keep track of as it is.
> 
> This is something I just don't understand, why is some psuedo-arbitrary
> number somehow MORE confusing/damaging than some convoluted upgrade
> path?
> 
> The only negative (which is bs) of doing so is keeping around multiple
> compat libraries for the same release, which we can simply decide not
> to do.
> 
> (meaning, for your example there does not need to be a libc.so.7
> shipped in some compat package unless someone really wants to)

User questions.  "I just upgraded via make world from 6.x to 7.0 and now I 
have a libc.so.6 and a libc.so.8, what happened to libc.so.7, did something 
go wrong??? please help!!!!"

etc.

And yes, I do think it's ok for -current to have rougher edges.  After all, we 
aren't really trying to get people running -current on production systems.

-- 
John Baldwin



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