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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.cais.com!news!khera From: khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: 2.1 Upgrade Date: 06 Feb 1996 19:28:38 GMT Organization: Khera Communications, Inc., Rockville, MD Lines: 39 Message-ID: <KHERA.96Feb6142838@kci.kciLink.com> References: <4f6lud$d2b@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kci.kcilink.com In-reply-to: krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com's message of 6 Feb 1996 04:37:33 GMT >>>>> "KR" == Karl Renaut <krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com> writes: KR> Anybody else out there brave enough to upgrade to 2.1 besides me? I've put it on one machine, but I did a clean install on it. Everything went smoothly. I like the new kernel features. The one I need right now is the fix to the deadlock problem with mapped files. I've been making notes of what I had to fix up to meet my site requirements. The only major complaint I have is that the system shared library for jpeg is the old version 5a rather than the new version 6 library. This means I have to go back now and recompile and link ImageMagick and xv to use the new jpeg library (in addition to building the new jpeg library and making it a shared lib...) Emacs is old, too: 19.28 vs. 19.30 which is the latest release. Other than that, it is just a few patches that need to be applied for glimpse and HylaFAX. The distributed glimpseindex program will generate *HUGE* .glimpse_turbo files. The distributed HylaFAX will sometimes send duplicate text messages to a text pager. Perl5 is great now that it has the DynaLoader feature enabled -- I just plopped in my new extensions and they work. No need to rebuild a static perl with the extensions in it. Oh yeah... /usr/contrib/bin/zipinfo should be hard linked to /usr/contrib/bin/unzip, but it is not. I reported this one back when 2.0 first shipped, but I guess nobody cared enough about it. I have just about all of my environment recreated on the 2.1 system. I decided to take this opportunity to upgrade all packages and just recompile everything that's been lying around since the 1.1 release. I plan on moving my mail/DNS/ftp host to 2.1 this weekend. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-258-8292 PGP/RIPEM/MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/