From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 13:38:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A9737B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id QAA08463; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:37:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:37:55 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Warner Losh Cc: John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT is bad for me... In-Reply-To: <200102122119.f1CLJaW31538@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > To be blunt, the FILE * changes go too far, even for -current. Other than having to installworld twice, I've had zero problems. But I don't recompile my applications often, and am probably still running things that depend on libc.so.4. > Changes of this magnitude require a bump of the major number, even > though we've already done that in -current. It breaks nearly > everything, including the upgrade path. Alternatively, the locking > changes need to be backed out. Too bad ELF libraries don't have minor version numbers. It's a shame to waste a library version number. > Alternatively, the upgrade path must be fixed. We've managed to avoid > extra special instructions in the vast majority of cases, and I don't > want to start introducing them now. It is the road to madness. We > tried that once before and the support load was too high. I don't have the time or resources to fix the upgrade path. If someone else wants to, it would certainly be appreciated. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message