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From: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.dialix.com>
To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sendmail/src daemon.c deliver.c readcf.c 
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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
>