Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Kostik (Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:20:48 +0300) * | > A CMUCL binary built on a pre-7.1 (?) release of FreeBSD, will crash | > almost immediately when run on 7.1 (well, "if memory serves"). | | This has been an issue for 7.0, and it was explicitely handled, see r174254. I know it was (I was

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:11:07PM -0400, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/Dag-Erling (Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:11:50 +0200) * > | "Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > | > It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x > | > should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Dag-Erling (Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:11:50 +0200) * | "Simon L. Nielsen" writes: | > It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x | > should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of forward | > compatibility. IE, 7.0 binary should be able to run on 7.x

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x > should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of forward > compatibility. IE, 7.0 binary should be able to run on 7.x, but a 7.2 > binary might not run on 7.0. It should be more or les

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2009.09.24 15:26:34 -0500, Stef Walter wrote: > It seems that FreeBSD has an ABI compatibility policy where major > versions remain ABI and API compatible throughout minor point versions. > That is to say that the kernel interfaces and libraries for (eg) > 7-STABLE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE are

Re: crashtar

2009-10-10 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:34:05 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: AB> thanks. this is a cool script and very useful indeed. only thing you might AB> want to do is check for root privileges at the beginning to avoid nasty error AB> messages like. AB> awk: can't open file /var/crash/info.0 AB>

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread jhell
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:21, alexbestms@ wrote: of course sysinstall has a ton of problems and should be replaced. no doubt about it. but look at it from this angle: You should really ask what the FreeBSD angle on this is. It is really well versed and well planned out and covers many areas amo

Re: crashtar

2009-10-10 Thread Alexander Best
thanks. this is a cool script and very useful indeed. only thing you might want to do is check for root privileges at the beginning to avoid nasty error messages like. awk: can't open file /var/crash/info.0 source line number 12 thanks again. alex ___

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread Alexander Best
Randi Harper schrieb am 2009-10-10: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Alexander Best < > alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > > hi there, > > sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries > > to avoid > > dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found thi

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread Alexander Best
jhell schrieb am 2009-10-09: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:52 +0200, alexbestms@ wrote: > >hi there, > >sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries > >to avoid > >dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this > >beautiful > >screenie of a (probably) ncurse-ba

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/9/09, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries to avoid > dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this beautiful > screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer: > > http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=y