Re: Preparation for creating netbsd-7 branch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:44:00PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 05:57:52PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > > 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.
> 
> Not for old versions of libs. (Also, last I checked, sufficiently old
> i386 bins don't run on amd64 because COMPAT_xx for old xx isn't present.)

Old versions are not touched by the upgrade process either, so they just
remain.

Joerg