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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:21:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        asami@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libc shlib version
Message-ID:  <200011140421.eAE4LbH42963@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <vqc8zqnmqkb.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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In article <vqc8zqnmqkb.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>,
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
>  * From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
> 
>  *          If it contains a new libc, that seems like the real problem
>  * to me.  It's always risky to use new libs (especially libc) with an
>  * old kernel.
> 
> New ports and packages didn't work with the old libc because someone
> moved stuff from libxpg4 to libc without changing the version numbers.
> Putting it in the upgrade kit was the only way to let 4.0R people use
> ports-current.

That sounds like a good reason to me.

Maybe you should have included a kernel in the upgrade kit too ... ;-)

> Maybe I should have insisted that the libc version change back then.
> I really wish we could keep the two version numbers from a.out, so I
> don't have to worry about stuff like this. :<

Sorry!

John


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