Re: 64 bit time_t changes

On Mar 23,  1:16am, heNetBSD.org (Havard Eidnes) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: 64 bit time_t changes

| > | First -- will 5.0 ship with the old libc?  If not,
I assume that all
| > | binaries, both pkgsrc and user-written, will have
to be recompiled.
| >
| > We will ship with the libc.12 and old binaries will
work.
| 
| How will we ship libc.12, and how will we maintain it?  As
part of the
| base system build, or as a binary compatibility package
out of pkgsrc?
| If the former, I have a couple of other questions I want
to ask...

As part of pkgsrc, a binary. Like we did for the a.out
libc.12. Building
it will not be supported anymore, since both the headers and
the code will
be gone.

christos

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:25:22AM -0400, Christos Zoulas
wrote:
 > As part of pkgsrc, a binary. Like we did for the a.out
libc.12. Building
 > it will not be supported anymore, since both the
headers and the code will
 > be gone.

I don't see why we couldn't keep it somewhere (e.g. on a
branch, or in
othersrc) along with a snapshot of the kernel headers it
needs, and
thus still be able to build it. It wouldn't be that hard to
set up, it
wouldn't require much attention, and it would be useful to
have if a
security problem came along. Particularly if a security
problem came
along while there were still supported releases using
libc.so.12.

-- 
David A. Holland
dhollandnetbsd.org