From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 30 1:11:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF5E152EB for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:10:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id SAA10415; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:25:16 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA25210; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:22:46 +0930 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:22:46 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Steve Price Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports question In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ----- The Feynman problem-solving algorithm: 1. Write down the problem 2. Think real hard 3. Write down the solution To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message