Re: upgrade of file(1) to 4.10 (including FreeBSD elf(5) fixes)

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:02:44AM +0000, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:59:14AM -0500, Jon Noack wrote:
> > On 08/02/04 07:15, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> > >I've prepared an upgrade to file-4.10 at:
> > >  <http://people.freebsd.org/~eik/patches/fileup.shar>
> > >This fixes
> > >  PR bin/63830: [patch] file(1) doesn't recognize FreeBSD 5.x 
> > >executables properly
> > >
> > >and an MFC will fix the problems of FreeBSD 4.10 being identified as 
> > >4.9.1. I'll do some more testing (GCC 3.4) and think we should commit 
> > >this before the 5.3 src freeze, especially since it has been discussed 
> > >over a month ago:
> > >  <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-June/thread.html#30172>
> > 
> > *sigh*  Why does Christos Zoulas ignore me?  He keeps telling me he'll 
> > include my patch and then includes someone else's that doesn't fix the 
> > problems.  In any case, my patch (against file 4.09) to fix the versioning:
> > http://www.noacks.org/freebsd/readelf.c.diff
> > 
> > I made a test program to compare the output.  Here's the way things 
> > would look with file 4.10:
> > http://www.noacks.org/freebsd/output-4.10.txt
> 
> This is getting really redicious.  Edwin Groothuis <edwin_at_mavetju.org>
> should have never have submitted a patch that hardcoded -CURRENT in 4.08
> and -STABLE in 4.10.  And we don't have offical "revisions" (nor
> patchlevels, other than security branches), so that output is bad also.

Please have a look at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/freebsd-versions.html
, please have a look at /usr/include/sys/param.h and come back with
patches if you still have problems.

This nonsense has gone on long enough. It will be better if you
explain where my thinking went wrong in a constructive way instaed
of this constant bickering like old women do. That way we all learn
something from it.

Edwin

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