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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FAQ: What's the *Right* way to upgrade 1.1G to 1.1R? Date: 05 Jun 1994 21:49:15 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 19 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jun5214915@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <2sfn3k$5e6@meatball.rwwa.com> <C5EPB23@math.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de's message of Sun, 5 Jun 1994 11:35:14 GMT In article <C5EPB23@math.fu-berlin.de> gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Shadow) writes: >There was talk of a binary patch, but I havn't seen anything new show up at >FreeBSD.cdrom.com recently. [ Just to prevent this from fading out too quickly... ] The answer must have faded away too quickly too.. :-) As stated before, the binary patch from 1.1G to 1.1R became just too difficult (sigh!) due to a change in the profiling code in libc that led to all the static binaries being rebuilt. This made the binary patch file LARGE and somewhat hard to generate as well, so we just released a source patch. We're sorry about that, and we certainly intended to do a binary patch, but circumstances made it necessary to alter that plan. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Friend to mollusks