Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:33:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul Seniura" <pdseniura@techie.com> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: maybe zlib-1.2.1? (re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base) Message-ID: <20040628223328.0471D5C29@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> In-Reply-To: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> References: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
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I've been testing zlib-1.2.1 on OSX Panther 10.3.3 and
on 10.3.4 for several weeks (across an update).
I compiled with '-prebind -bind_at_load' replacing
Apple's own provided files there. Seems a lot peppier,
their work does show thru. If this isn't planned for
5.3-R already, I will try when/if I can do it on the
puny pentium2 at work to give it a whirl (anything to
try helping it along).
-- thx, Paul Seniura
System Specialist
State of Okla. D.O.T.
===Original-message===
Hi,
I digged through our base system and looked for versions of contributed soft.
I found these program which could (and I think should) be easily and painlessly
upgraded (before 5.3 as 5-STABLE) because they are outdated etc...
these are:
file - 3.41 -> 4.09
Painless upgrade and the benefit is much newer magic file
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
tcsh - 6.12 -> 6.13
Mainly bugfix upgrade - also absolutely painless
http://www.tcsh.org
diff - 2.7 -> 2.8.1
Should be painless (I think) and I dont see why should we keep the old version
http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/diffutils.html
ntp, 4.1.0 -> 4.2.0
Another one which cannot hurt to have up-to-date and also I dont see reason why
this shouldnt be painless (4.2.0 includes openssl - benefit)
http://ntp.org
None of the above mentioned have been modified by FreeBSD so the import is
painless (with the exception of diff where was fixed some bugs but I think this
has been corrected in the new version).
I think this should be upgraded and will be glad to see so happen ;)
Roman Divacky
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