Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:22:53 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New aout-to-elf build failures. Message-ID: <13301.915070973@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:14:07 %2B1100." <199812310214.NAA24128@cimlogic.com.au>
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> People aren't sufficiently committed to keeping the upgrade process in > working order. It's now broken in several ways. Looks like a binary > upgrade is the only feasible option. Sigh. Sorry, I wasn't fully cognizant of the woes caused by missing things in /boot with a.out only systems. Seems I "broke" both libdisk and disklabel in the process, but this only underscores an important point which I've already made to core, and that's that we can't really stay "dual headed" like this for much longer if we don't wish to slowly accumulate cruft which is there for no other purpose than to keep 3.0/a.out systems alive. On January 6th, I think we're going to throw the switch completely to ELF and start recommending certain procedures to existing -current folks who haven't willingly crossed the divide yet. I would of course love to see the aout-to-elf target continue to work in this migration process but I can only go after the /boot problems, which I have a few ideas on (mostly copying stuff into there on a.out systems using the contents of /usr/mdec). If more than this is broken, I suggest tugging on the sleeves of those responsible and asking them how we're going to get everyone forcefully migrated to ELF on the 6th of Jan if there's no real mechanism for the -current folks to do it. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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