Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 14:39:38 +0200 From: Michael Knudsen <none@e--molioner.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk Subject: Re: OBSD 3.4->3.5
Quoting John Fox Maule (john@fox-maule.dk):
> i386 Platform switched to ELF with OpenBSD/i386 3.4. The ELF executable
> file format offers greater flexibility in memory layout over the older
> a.out format, and was required for our W^X implementation on i386.
> Upgrading by source is NOT an option. Binary upgrades are possible, but
> very difficult, requiring uninstalling all existing packages before
> upgrade and reinstalling them after upgrade. There are many other
> potential issues here, the OpenBSD team HIGHLY recommends you reinstall
> from scratch. Note that an a.out binary emulation is provided by sysctl
> for binary-only applications that require it. If you are doing an
> upgrade, you will almost certainly need to enable this.
Dette skete mellem 3.3 og 3.4.
-- <soaplove> reverse: yah, totallu. <soaplove> Looks like some of my y fell off in transit. TCP sucks.
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