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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:24:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ipv6 related warnings
Message-ID:  <permail-20090928132402f7e55a9d0000034f-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
In-Reply-To: <86my4f45c6.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav schrieb am 2009-09-28:
> Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > > No, you can build a *kernel* without IPv6, just not userland.
> > > Parts
> > > of userland will respect WITHOUT_INET6, others won't, and others
> > > yet
> > > will build but not run correctly.
> > So shouldn't those disrespecting parts of userland be fixed?

> Why?  In most (userland) cases, it takes more work to write code that
> supports IPv4 but not IPv6 than to write code that supports both.

> > Besides, returning to the original post, those messages weren't
> > there
> > just a few days ago, this is a new addition.

> ...if by "just a few days" you mean "two weeks".  If this really is
> "a
> new addition", it dates back to one of hrs@'s commits on 2009-09-13.
> However, the most likely cause of the OP's problem is incorrect use
> of
> mergemaster.  If he did indeed run "mergemaster -p" and "mergemaster
> -i", but nothing more, his /etc is completely out of sync.

mergemaster -p and mergemaster -i aren't sufficient to sync /etc with
/usr/src/etc? but that's what UPDATING recommends.

alex

> DES



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