Re: revivesa status 2008/07/09

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:09:21PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
 > > > As far as I understand it, such a change would *in practice*
 > > > force a synchronized upgrade of both kernel and user-land
 > > > (mostly due to "dragged-along dependencies"),
 > >
 > > It should only force kernel+libc+libpthread (and, really, libc 
 > > +libpthread should probably be just in a single library).
 > 
 > That's the theory, and why I said *in practice* above.  If I
 > recall correctly, practice has shown that as things stand now,
 > more libraries will need to be upgraded.

Also, updating libc is not acceptable if the goal is to build
4.0-compatible binaries in a chroot. Which is one of the use cases we
have.

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David A. Holland
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