Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:56:35 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Back to the Future - 64-bit time_t on sparc64 Message-ID: <20040220035635.GA69900@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <p06020453bc5b2ce4acc3@[128.113.24.47]> References: <40306CE7.6080104@mindspring.com> <20040216193108.GE12181@seekingfire.com> <p0602041ebc56dd660908@[128.113.24.47]> <20040217040616.GL12181@seekingfire.com> <20040219143838.GL68388@seekingfire.com> <p0602044bbc5ac1a48967@[128.113.24.47]> <20040219204008.GB3545@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <p0602044cbc5ad23c6d38@[128.113.24.47]> <20040219205750.GC3545@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <p06020453bc5b2ce4acc3@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:29:20PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > My basic plan is to commit these three files to /usr/src on > March 1st. This wouldn't actually change anything, it would > just make the files available as part of the src tree. Then, > at some later date (march 4th? march 8th? even later?), we'd > commit the change to /usr/src/sys/sparc64/include/_types.h > which makes the switch, and add an entry in /usr/src/UPDATING > to point sparc64 users to these two files. > > Does this seem reasonable? Is there a way we can avoid footshooting? For example: check if /usr/include/machine/_types.h is equal to the one in the source tree and disallow installworld without some special define if they're not. The scripts use the define to circumvent the anti-footshooting measure. Something along those lines... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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