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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:22:46 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports question
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903301818330.5045-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903261108280.22203-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Steve Price wrote:

> # Second, on ELF systems, if the data of /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 is older
> # than March 24, I need to install a new loader.  Or, I need to abort the
> # installation since it requires a new runtime loader.
> 
> Installing a new loader would be a bad thing to do from the ports
> tree.  As for testing the date that is not a perfect solution either.
> I'd like to see a quick-n-dirty test prgram written and add that
> to the ELF distfiles.  Then you could do something like this:

Perhaps __FreeBSD_version should be bumped, if this is a choke point.
March 24 wasn't too long ago, it's probably not too late.

Kris

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