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At 5:33 PM +0100 3/15/04, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
>>  I don't think there are specific reasons not to upgrade.
>
>I have one: the version in the base system is the exact same as
>that in the ports tree, and it's broken beyond belief on 64-bit
>systems.  I posted a patch to this list a few weeks ago for this
>specific issue, but there are probably other, more deeply hidden
>ones.

Hmm.  The version in ports seemed to work fairly reliably in
my limited testing.  The version in the base system almost never
worked for me, so I assumed they were different.

Reminder: I have not been looking into the problems with dhcp
vs 64-bTT.  I hope someone else is...

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