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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:00:47 -0800
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
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Subject: Re: Back to the Future - 64-bit time_t on sparc64
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:53:00PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
> Adventurous people are invited to try this for installs on any
> system, and let me know how it goes

No problems. It's actually very painless. The "mergemaster -p"
is probably a bit too much, as well as the second mergemaster
provided that the machine has been upgraded prior to starting
the 64-bit time_t transition. Also, the first "shutdown -r"
can probably be a reboot.

In any case: good job!

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net