Re: Preparation for creating netbsd-7 branch

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

joerg@ wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:57:46PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> For the ones in base, compat versions should exist in /usr/lib/XXX.
> Redirection magic exists.

Well, if you only read the quoted sentence and
you are claiming about i386 to amd64 migration,
please implement it in sysinst as you like.

The problem discussed here is arm to earm (or its variant).

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Izumi Tsutsui