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New sysnames for 9.0 release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 30 15:43:38 2001
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:42:59 -0400
Message-Id: <200105301942.PAA04622@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: locker-maintainers@MIT.EDU
Hello. This summer's Athena release, currently in beta testing,
brings with it two new sysnames: i386_linux24 and sun4x_58. (The
previous sysnames for those platforms were i386_linux22 and sun4x_57.)
There will be no change to the operating system or sysname under IRIX.
You should consider updating your locker for these sysnames. We no
longer have the "add: warning: using compatibility for foo" message,
but if you have any @sys-using symlinks (even a "bin" convenience
symlink at the top level), they will stop working unless you take some
kind of action.
As usual, there are three possible choices, in ascending order of
effort and correctness:
* Make a symlink under arch from the new sysname to an older
sysname. If you do this, binaries rebuilt on 9.0 machines
will generally break on 8.4 machines.
* Make a symlink farm under arch/newsysname/bin pointing to
the binaries from an older system type. When binaries are
rebuilt on a 9.0 machine, replace the symlinks with actual
files.
* Rebuild the entire locker under the new operating systems.
