Reasons for 64-bTT & DHCP import
Garance A Drosihn
drosih at rpi.edu
Tue Mar 16 18:34:33 PST 2004
At 5:33 PM +0100 3/15/04, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> writes:
>> I don't think there are specific reasons not to upgrade.
>
>I have one: the version in the base system is the exact same as
>that in the ports tree, and it's broken beyond belief on 64-bit
>systems. I posted a patch to this list a few weeks ago for this
>specific issue, but there are probably other, more deeply hidden
>ones.
Hmm. The version in ports seemed to work fairly reliably in
my limited testing. The version in the base system almost never
worked for me, so I assumed they were different.
Reminder: I have not been looking into the problems with dhcp
vs 64-bTT. I hope someone else is...
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