From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 15:43:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B862F16A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail2.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C5743FA3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: from sydsmtp02.alcatel.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])h99MhH26015811; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:43:18 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au ([139.188.20.247]) by sydsmtp02.alcatel.com.au (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.12) with ESMTP id 2003101008431752:10593 ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:43:17 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h99MhH7d094634; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:43:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h99MhFhS094633; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:43:15 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:43:15 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Michael Sierchio Message-ID: <20031009224315.GX91404@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Sierchio , stable@freebsd.org References: <20031009025421.8407143FAF@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20031009171050.GA15948@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <3F85C63B.40508@tenebras.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3F85C63B.40508@tenebras.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on SYDSMTP02/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.12 |February 13, 2003) at 10/10/2003 08:43:17 AM,|February 13, 2003) at 10/10/2003 08:43:18 AM, Serialize complete at 10/10/2003 08:43:18 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcpslice out of date X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 22:43:23 -0000 On 2003-Oct-09 13:34:03 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: >Bruce A. Mah wrote: > >>There's a newer (Y2K-compliant) version in ports (net/tcpslice). I >>was talking with Bill Fenner (CC-ed) about the possibility of >>importing this newer version to the base system but I think both of us >>had too many other things to deal with. :-p >> >>IMHO, we should either import a newer version to the base system or >>kill it altogether and rely on the one in ports. > >There is some wisdom in not including it in the base system. There's >way too much stuff there, I'm of the "it should all be packages" >school. I'd support this as well - at least for -CURRENT. It's too much of a POLA violation to remove it from -STABLE, though it would be nice to have the installed version brought up to date. >Is there any other set of executables that depends on libpcap? I thought dhclient might but it doesn't seem to, so I can't think of anything. Peter