FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

George Mitchell george+freebsd at m5p.com
Sat Aug 11 00:11:01 UTC 2012


On 08/10/12 18:49, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> Try to ktrace the binaries to see what is going on. I suspect that
>> sources for 1.1.5 are not in our cvs/svn, so it is troublesome to
>> say anuthing without ktrace dump.
>
> Not that I need it, but I looked to see how old we go.
> (Sometimes its nice to have old stuff, eg to defeat patent claims)
>
> I dont see 1.1.5:
>
> /usr/cvs/src/Makefile,v	:
> 	        RELENG_2_1_0_RELEASE:1.57.4.8
> 	        RELENG_2_1_0:1.57.0.4
> 	        RELENG_2_1_0_BP:1.57
> 	        RELENG_2_0_5_RELEASE:1.57
> 	        RELENG_2_0_5:1.57.0.2
> 	        RELENG_2_0_5_BP:1.57
> 	        RELENG_2_0_5_ALPHA:1.56
> 	        RELEASE_2_0:1.30
> 	        BETA_2_0:1.30
> 	        ALPHA_2_0:1.29.0.2
> 	        bsd_44_lite:1.1.1.1
> 	        CSRG:1.1.1;

As I recall, 1.1.5.1 was the first version declared to be entitrely
free of copyrighted code.  There was probably an agreement not to
distribute any earlier versions.                        -- George

>
> cvs -Q -R export -r RELEASE_2_0 src
> 	Works (slowly, all the reverse diffs I guess): 100Meg
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/
> 	2.0.5 (June, 1995) Announcement : Release Notes
> 	2.0 (November, 1994) Announcement : Release Notes
> 	1.1.5.1 (July, 1994)
> 	1.1.5 Release Notes
> 	1.1 (May, 1994) Release Notes
> 	1.0 (November, 1993)
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/Makefile#diff
> 	shows diffs for src/Makefile back to
> 		Rev	CVS tags:
> 			RELEASE_2_0, BETA_2_0
> 		1.29    ALPHA_2_0
> 		1.1.1.1	bsd_44_lite
> 		1.1	________
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
>




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