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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