On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:11:29AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Daniel C. Sobral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : There I go reply to all... <sigh> > : > : IIRC, we never supported upgrade to 4.0 or 4.1 from anybut but the > : *latest* version in the 3.x series. I sure hope we adopt the same policy > : here. > > ru@ has stepped up to the plate to support more. He's gone through > and made sure that all the way back to 4.0-release is upgradable (at > least at each release point), going to support it through the first > branchpoint. You as a committer aren't required to do extra work to > make this work, except to not remove things he's done to make this > work. It is unclear what should happen when a piece of thirdparty > software is upgraded. However, core ruled a long time ago that ru@ > can take reasonable measures to make sure that it works. ru@ has kept > it up for a while now, so it looks like he's in it for the long run. > > This is only for native builds. Anything that is needed for cross > building isn't included in this 'upgrade' path. It is there just to > make our user's life easier. Also, core didn't want the work arounds > to get too gross, but so far all the ones I've l ooked at were > relatively inobtrusive. > Um, why? I can even cross-build any of our supported arches on the 4.0-RELEASE i386 box. This happens almost automatically, as part of the cross-arch work tasks. Cross-releases have some issues, and the Alpha box (of any useful sort) would help me a lot in polishing this. I've asked donations@ about this when they were offered a bunch of Alpha boxes last month, but haven't heard from them back.
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