upgrade of file(1) to 4.10 (including FreeBSD elf(5) fixes)

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:19:29AM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:31:15PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> >>As usual, file(1) has to follow. Anyway, since it works for now, and
> >>currently there is no reason to break it, why is it bad? I actually 
> >>like
> >>that feature, and it is useful for debugging ports that should have 
> >>been
> >>recompiled after a system upgrade.
> >
> >Sounds like you're trying to work around bugs in the Ports Collection,
> >please go fix those bugs and use the proper tool for the job.
> 
> Could you please elaborate which bugs you are referring to? The current 
> file(1) works fine for me in this aspect, so what are better tools for 
> the job?

It appears you're concerned when FreeBSD X.Y comes out, you've got ports
compiled on X.(Y-1).  This is not a problem, and I'm not sure why you
feel it is that you appear to run file(1) across all of /usr/local and
/usr/X11R6 and reinstall any binaries you find from X.(Y-1).  Since X.Y
will run X.(Y-1) binaries just fine I'm not sure why you have this need.
portupgrade(8) is the proper tool to refresh all your ports.  If you find
that X.Y can't run an X.(Y-1) binary then the root cause of that bug
should be fixed.

I don't see that your method of running file(1) across everything scales
well to the typical user.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)