Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:34:55 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.dialix.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sendmail/src daemon.c deliver.c readcf.c Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950817132533.3060O-100000@haywire.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: <199508170513.WAA14876@precipice.shockwave.com>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Paul Traina wrote: > > NO NO NO! > STOP. Relax.. Nobody's done anything.. :-) > The new rdist is incompatible with the old rdist. The way the new rdist > "maintains" compatibility is by execing the old rdist binary. Yes.. It looks for invocation with "-Server" and execs the old one in the path that you specify. > Be REALLY careful what you do here. If you all of a sudden make us > incompatible with every non-FreeBSD machine out there, I will visit you > with a chain-saw. *gulp*.. Yes, quite understandable... > It is possible to have "both" rdists, but you need to think about how you're > going to do that. OK. Given that as a definate requirement, and providing that it works properly, I think it is worth proceding... The "convention" seems to be to rename the old binary out of the way, and execing it. I dont see that as an option for a source distribution, so I guess we'd need to actually have an "oldrdist" build target.... -Peter > Paul > > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sendmail/src daemon.c deliver.c readcf. > >>c > Once you finish sendmail, could I possibly talk you into doing rdist? > The FreeBSD patches are in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/rdist* > as well as a pointer to the current sources (6.1.0?) from uci.edu. > > Jordan >
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