Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:45:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: deischen@freebsd.org Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure Message-ID: <3FB6ACA5.B4192F55@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311141645540.7284-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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? No, we want a minor version bump to add a new interface, but since we got rid of minor version numbers on libraries, this is no longer possible. 8-). > For 6.0, can we start off libc at libc.so.YYYYMMDD and move it > back to libc.so.6 for the first release? That way we can bump > it whenever we want to avoid the "bumpy" rides for -current > folk. This is a great idea! -- Terry
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