Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:12:04 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: KrisUniverse <kris.universe@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind? Message-ID: <20130305161158.GB9376@saturn> In-Reply-To: <BDA9B28C-835F-4EF7-9E9D-FD455B820462@gmail.com> References: <BDA9B28C-835F-4EF7-9E9D-FD455B820462@gmail.com>
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On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse <kris.universe@gmail.com> wrote: > The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R. > > However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping through > 1.2.5, 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 with bug fixes. > > Is there any reason for not using Zlib 1.2.7? I don't have a 9.1-RELEASE system nearby, but I think zlib 1.2.7 _should_ already be there... Are you sure it's still an old version? The zlib on /head is 1.2.7, merged from the vendor branch on 2012-06-21. | % svn log --limit 1 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libz | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r237410 | delphij | 2012-06-21 23:47:08 +0200 (Πεμ, 21 Ιον 2012) | 8 lines | | MFV: Update zlib to 1.2.7. | | (x86 assembler optimization disabled for now because it | requires the new .cfi_* directives that is not supported | by base system binutils). | | MFC after: 1 week This was later merged to 9.1-STABLE after about a week of burn-in on /head: | % svn log --limit 1 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/lib/libz | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r237691 | delphij | 2012-06-28 09:08:48 +0200 (Πεμ, 28 Ιον 2012) | 2 | lines | | MFC r237410: zlib 1.2.7. Then the 9.1-RELEASE branch was copied from releng/9.1 on 2012-12-03, long after the MFC of zlib 1.2.7 to the stable/9 branch. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r243808 | kensmith | 2012-12-03 06:03:33 +0100 (Δευ, 03 Δεκ 2012) | 4 lines | | Copy releng/9.1 to release/9.1.0 as part of 9.1-RELEASE. | | Approved by: re (implicit) I'm confused now. By tracking down these commits in our svn repository I would expect libz on 9.1-RELEASE to be version 1.2.7.
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