From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 14:23: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51ACD37B4D7 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:23:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA34229; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:22:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc shlib version Message-ID: <20001115142253.C34085@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200011131727.eADHR8c42388@vashon.polstra.com> <20001113153325.D39667@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001114081845.A76050@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001114155611.A94037@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011150721.eAF7L2G47704@billy-club.village.org> <20001115124445.A32318@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011152049.NAA58842@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011152049.NAA58842@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:49:39PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:49:39PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > This makes it harder to deal with mixed environments, but not hugely > so. Can you expand on this? > We're not supposed to have major libc bumps in -stable. I'm not aware of this rule since the switch to ELF. I don't believe it is in the developers section of the Handbook. > If it is a bunch of changes or if the changes happened a long time ago, > then we have no choice but to fix the problem now and how the "window" > isn't too disruptive. Again, I don't think there is a [large] problem to fix. The way the upgrade kits have been done in the past have been walking a tight rope. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message