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To: jb@cimlogic.com.au
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In-reply-to: <199808200018.KAA03932@cimlogic.com.au> (message from John Birrell on Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:18:43 +1000 (EST))
Subject: Re: rayshade port
From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
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 * I have a working upgrade procedure for aout->elf that handles the world
 * and kernel, but ignores ports. Are people going to object if we ask for
 * ports to be deleted and installed from scratch on the newly converted
 * elf system? I can't see how I can possibly test building elf ports with
 * an unknown number of aout ones hanging around. There are too many
 * combinations.

Understood, but we can't ask people to delete everything.  Some of the
things might be old versions that they need for whatever reason.
Besides, many ports may not build for a long while, so asking them to
delete everything is very risky.

Will ld.so still find a.out shared libraries in /usr/local/lib and
/usr/X11R6/lib even after ELF versions of the same software are
installed?  (They have different file names, right?)  If so, we should
probably tell people to just reinstall libraries that they need
without deleting the old ones, and try deleting suspicious stuff
(libraries that may be causing conflicts) piecemeal if something
doesn't work.

If that doesn't work, then I guess we will have to ask them to move
the libraries to /usr/local/lib/aout, /usr/X11R6/lib/aout and edit
/etc/rc when the switch is thrown.  That way new (ELF) libraries will
not be installed over the old ones.

 * There are only a few issues remaining before that big switch can be thrown.

That's good news! :)

Satoshi

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