DragonFly 3.4 release planning

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sat Mar 30 11:25:03 PDT 2013


:> Binaries in /bin and /sbin are compiled statically, which makes them unusable
:> with NSS modules.
:> This is IMHO the biggest remaining issue with this release.
:
:Just curious - hasn't this been the case for some time?
:And if so / not - why did this become an issue for you now?
:
:Not taking one side or another, just wondering about more background info,
:though I do seem to recall a rather strong position taken *against*
:dynamic /bin /sbin in this project when FreeBSD switched to dynamic
:builds in the freebsd ~6.x-7.x era
:
:Cheers,
:
:- Chris

    I think I'm the only one who is really against making /bin and /sbin
    dynamic.  I feel kinda silly standing on top of the hill holding up
    the red flag :-(.

    I really hate the concept of a /rescue.  I could live with a nullfs
    overloading of /bin and /sbin, but so far nobody (including I) has
    thought up a good clean way to do it and still have the safety of
    static binaries in single-user mode.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>



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