libc changes and freebsd-4 compatible binaries

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon May 2 09:48:01 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:31:42PM -0400, justin at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The two basic options are:
> > (1) Provide a port / package analog to misc/compat4x (misc/compatdf12 ?).
> > For the mean time, it could be automatically installed with the LiveCD.
> > (2) Push them as binaries into src/lib/compat or so and install them
> > with the normal world.
> 
> If we do (1), what happens to folks using pkgsrc?  Right now, the system
> still works if you remove all ports.

Same approach, just different package format.

Joerg





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