From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 10 01:50:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81D716A420 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:50:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683B843D45 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:50:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i27so552803wra for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:50:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TRm3pf+CGoOYx84SHPrn8wd2QYdBZhvaXQK5wpR63vzLFEb6svpOiu2uoGJy3EAMPitfPEr8OyRJilKWSBkph2E934mgK+ngj9TFcQhIUP4P9u18qVa5Lrw3ZfCtKMEUS7ETuCFZrCCa2SclgPG9iAGewhyHIqJgmbVfqmxOj08= Received: by 10.54.142.13 with SMTP id p13mr183164wrd; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.122.7 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:50:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0603091750r67188696w@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:50:36 +0000 From: Chris To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <20060309180651.GA94019@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3aaaa3a0603090943qdcc1128u@mail.gmail.com> <20060309180651.GA94019@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libthr + libtool bump + mysql X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:50:38 -0000 On 09/03/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:43:10PM +0000, Chris wrote: > > Hi > > > > I recently noticed after the libtool bump using libthr on 5.3 and 5.4 > > What does libtool have to do with it? > > > release servers for mysql causes the process to hang when a kill is > > issued and become unkillable even with -9 and the only way to recover > > is reboot the server. The problem is not on 6.0 and 5.4-STABLE. So > > this would suggest to me libthr is updated in the 5.x branch. > > Probably was. > > > Will libthr in 5.5 be the same as in 6.0 or does the 6.x version still > > have advantages? > > In general 6.x has too many bug fixes to mention, so chances are it's > also good on 6.x. > > > Should I contact the mysql port maintainer and ask him to add a > > warning to the port concerning libthr on 5.4 release and older? > > You can ask, but the port maintainer does not have to support running > on older releases. > > Kris > > Ok thanks 5.3 and 5.4 are "old" but not EOL they are still supported I thought. I dont like upgrading major version every 6-12 months and I am sure there are others as well. So if I have this correct everytime a new major version hits release ports may stop working for live release branches and it doesnt matter? For example some may take the view that 6.x isnt mature enough to use until 6.2 or 6.3, thanks Chris