Hi, all! I have relied on the COMPAT* switches in /etc/make.conf for years to allow binary software like some of the stuff we distribute to work out of the box on 5.X servers.
Now, while setting up our first RELENG_6 system I found that they are actually no ops? OK, I searched a little bit. There are ports for the libraries now. And there's an entry in the CVS repository: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf Fri Oct 15 08:51:11 2004 UTC (12 months, 2 weeks ago) by ru Overdue removal of COMPAT* knobs. OK ... overdue due to what? There's no mention of such a serious change in UPDATING or anywhere I could find on the system. Seems like I've been copying around no ops for about a year ... Whas there a HEADS UP mail on -stable that I simply missed? In the same line: why are the libraries delivered as uuencoded binaries? Don't they change anymore? What if there is a serious security flaw in lib_something? Shouldn't the library in question be fixed, then? Is it not possible to compile a 4.x (3.x, ...) library from source on a 5.x (6.x, ...) system? Thanks, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
