Reasons for 64-bTT & DHCP import

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 6:39 PM -0800 3/16/04, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 16, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  >
>>  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.
>
>It's possible the base system version has an incorrect configuration
>file; these are typically generated statically by the person who
>does the import, so they can sometimes become stale when new
>versions are imported, or perhaps a sparc64 version was never
>imported in the first place.

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>I committed a ton of patches to the port last night, including
>one that should fix the 64-bit time_t issue.

This is excellent to see.  Thanks!  Hopefully that will go a long
way to fixing the problems that people are seeing, and then we
can get the same fixes into the base-system version.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu