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From: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe)
Subject: Re: Compiling Kernel with GCC-2: How, exactly?
In-Reply-To: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk's message of Sun, 25 Jul 1993 19:25:09 +0000
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In article <1993Jul25.192511.23179@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:

   I've not seen the exact packaging of the FreeBSD release yet but it's
   basically going to be an all or nothing update. There are fundamental
   changes in FreeBSD which means you're not going to be able to mix and
   match the new with the old and expect your system to work. For a start
   there's new db code that affects a lot more than you'd initially think.

You can say that again; to build a different sendmail (5.65c + the IDA
stuff), I had to bring the new db stuff from NetBSD-current.  I then
spent a good while making the other modifications necessary
(hash_open's gone, you have to use dbopen now) and rebuilding
everything under the sun.

If spwd.db disappears, you're completely screwed if you haven't got a
working fixit floppy at the time. :)

Brendan
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Brendan Kehoe                                               brendan@cygnus.com
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