From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 2 13:35:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EEC16A4CF for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:35:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp002.bizmail.yahoo.com (smtp002.bizmail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D619043D5F for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:35:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@70.240.234.183 with login) by smtp002.bizmail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 2004 13:34:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BF76168; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:34:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 93054-02-2; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC536114; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i72DYtfS010168; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <410E42FF.7030102@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:34:55 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Eikemeier References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: Edwin Groothuis cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade of file(1) to 4.10 (including FreeBSD elf(5) fixes) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:35:15 -0000 On 08/02/04 08:20, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Jon Noack wrote: >> [...] >> Note that 5.x is hardcoded as -CURRENT. This is asking to be fixed in >> a few months when 5.x goes -STABLE and 6.x appears. Better not to >> print branch names at all (for dev branches I just print the whole >> version value in parentheses). There are other minor nits like 5.0.4 >> and 4.15.30... > > Yes, you are right. At the time I've submitted the patch the point where > FreeBSD would go -STABLE wasn't known, and the branch names are inspired > by the output of uname(1). Anyway, this is a virgin import, and we > shouldn't patch the sources. I'm sure the 4.11 upgrade will be trivial > when we've done the 4.10 upgrade, and usually Christos is pretty > responsive. We can do an follow-up patch to 4.10 that we can discuss > here before submitting it upstream. Before I read this email I updated my patch (against 4.10) and resubmitted for file 4.11: http://www.noacks.org/freebsd/readelf.c.diff Would anyone prefer different output? If not, it would be great if someone could put in a good word for me with Christos... ;-) For the time being, I say we go ahead and import file 4.10. As you say, future updates should be trivial and getting the hard work out of the way now makes it easier to get things done in the future (a 4.10->4.11 update is a lot easier to justify in a src freeze than 3.41->4.11 should the timing come to that). I want proper version detection in 5.x-STABLE. Jon