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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:13:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        deischen@freebsd.org
Cc:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure 
Message-ID:  <16309.21386.164910.449768@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311141645540.7284-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
References:  <16309.19433.564671.856750@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311141645540.7284-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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Daniel Eischen writes:
 > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Kirk McKusick writes:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > And mail/postfix and devel/gnomevfs2 (ones's i've found so far)
 > > 
 > > <...>
 > > 
 > >  > This is why we make this change now so that it will be in place
 > >  > for the masses when 5.2 is released :-)
 > > 
 > > Can't we bump the libc version so that dynamically linked, non-system
 > > binaries can continue to work?   Having things like postfix and gnome
 > > dumping core seems excessivly bumpy.  Upgrading all ports is a pain.
 > 
 > I don't think that's a good idea.  I've also got changes in
 > mind that require a libc version bump, but they aren't ready
 > now.  I was saving them for 6.0.  Other folks may also have
 > similar changes in mind.  Do we really want to have yet another
 > version bump?

It costs ~1MB in disk space for each libc bump, yes that's expensive.
But so is having many random,  non-system applications bomb after you
upgrade.   Shooting all early adopters in the head is really bad for
PR.  I think that 1MB of disk space is worth it.

 > For 6.0, can we start off libc at libc.so.YYYYMMDD and move it

Yes! Yes!

Drew



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