Needed: compat5x package

Dejan Lesjak dejan.lesjak at ijs.si
Fri Aug 19 21:34:33 GMT 2005


On Friday 19 of August 2005 23:07, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak at ijs.si> wrote
>   in <200508192250.46012.dejan.lesjak at ijs.si>:
>
> de> One thing to consider is how to get these libraries. If they are taken
> from de> 5.4 release tarballs then there is problem with locale above and
> at least de> problem with libz and FreeBSD-SA-05:18.zlib vulnerability. One
> possible thing de> to do is to build RELENG_5_4 with the change to paths.h
> above and take de> libraries from there and generate tarballs (which is
> what I did for this de> sample except I took RELENG_5). If that makes sense
> I can do it for alpha, de> amd64, i386 and sparc64.
>
>  True.  These libraries have to be built with vulnerability fixes.
>  I took them from 5.4-RELEASE as you pointed out.  Building from
>  the RELENG_5_4 source looks reasonable to me.
>
>  I am wondering if misc/localedata can be used---were the LC_* files
>  architecture dependent at that time?  I thought this incompatibility
>  was needed to making them architecture independent.
>  Do I misunderstand?

From misc/localedata pkg-descr and comment it seems this is what should be 
used. I took dependency from compat4x port. I will CC the maintainer, just to 
be sure...

Dejan


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