Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:02:43 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base Message-ID: <20040627170243.GA61973@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> References: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
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On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote: > 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 outdated etc...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/ Only semi-painless. The code and how it is built has changed around a lot, else I would have upgraded it by now. That said, in progress; but lower priority than my toolchain work. And why does this have to happen before 5-STABLE? I can certainly MFC something like this. > 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 IIRC, ntp upgrades are never totally pain free. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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