From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 22:33:35 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 E503C16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:33:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odot.okladot.state.ok.us (odot.okladot.state.ok.us [192.149.244.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846B443D39 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:33:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us) Received: from techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us (techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us [199.27.9.37])RAA20800; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:33:28 -0500 Received: by techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us (Postfix, from userid 0) id 0471D5C29; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:33:28 -0500 (CDT) To: From: "Paul Seniura" Errors-To: "Paul Seniura" Sender: "Paul Seniura" In-Reply-To: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> References: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> Message-Id: <20040628223328.0471D5C29@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:33:28 -0500 (CDT) Subject: maybe zlib-1.2.1? (re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Seniura List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:33:36 -0000 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program which could (and I think should) be easily and painlessly upgraded (before 5.3 as 5-STABLE) because they are outdated etc...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