Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...)

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Wemm writes:
: If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as 
: required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we
: go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6
: if RELENG_4 bumps again).

I've had problems in the past going backwards on major versions of
shared libaries.  The major problem is that if I have binaries that
refer to libc.so.503, then when the major number is reverted back to
5, it is a nop because ld will use libc.so.503 for new binaries.

What's wrong with shipping with say libc.so.505 in 5.0 and then say
libc.so.645 in 6.0?

Warner


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