Re: Preparation for creating netbsd-7 branch

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

joerg@ wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:25:07PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > There is no upgrade path from i386 to amd64 in sysinst.
> > (we only had a.out to ELF)
> 
> How much of an upgrade path do you need? Remove /dev, install sets as
> usual, rerun MAKEDEV should be enough...

For example, prepare/move old compat libs if users also want
to use old binaries?
http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/aout2elf.c

Preparing and testing such upgrade mechanism would be a bit boring work
(there are few developers who care releases and sysinst itself)
so I'm afraid no one will take it...

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Izumi Tsutsui