Re: Preparation for creating netbsd-7 branch

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

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.

Joerg