Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base

Jon Noack wrote:

> On 06/27/04 12:02, David O'Brien wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
>>> I digged through our base system and looked for versions of
>>> contributed soft. I found these program which could (and I think
>>> should) be easily and painlessly upgraded (before 5.3 as 5-STABLE)
>>> because they are outdated etc... these are:
>>>
>>> file - 3.41 ->  4.09
>>> Painless upgrade and the benefit is much newer magic file
>>> ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
>> Only semi-painless.  The code and how it is built has changed around a
>> lot, else I would have upgraded it by now.  That said, in progress; but
>> lower priority than my toolchain work.
>> And why does this have to happen before 5-STABLE?  I can certainly MFC
>> something like this.
>
> Don't import until FILE 4.10 is released.  I've submitted a patch to 
> Christos Zoulas for inclusion in 4.10 that *greatly* increases the 
> accuracy of FILE for FreeBSD.  As soon as I see FILE 4.10 released 
> (with my patch), I'll be pleading for an import...

Seems like Christos has been swamped by readelf.c patches :) I must 
admit that I didn't care about 4.6.2...

Anyway, 4.09 is an improvement, and the import of 4.10 should be trivial 
afterwards, so why wait?

-Oliver