Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 11/04/05

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    Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:21:06 -0500
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:41:30PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
    > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:33:10PM -0200, Renato Botelho wrote:
    > > On 11/4/05, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote:
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    > > >
    > > > It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of
    > > > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. This release is the next step in delivering the
    > > > high performance and enterprise features that have been under
    > > > development in the FreeBSD 5.x series for that last several years.
    > > > Some of the many changes since 5.4 include:
    > >
    > > I'm having some troubles with locale after upgrade to RELENG_6.
    > >
    > > one example, perl warning me about my locale:
    >
    >
    > There were some issues with a library upgrade at some point, it was
    > awhile ago, and the details are hazy.
    >
    > (Please note that I am a different Scott and far less knowledgeable than
    > Mr. Long, but I have a need for Japanese and got bitten by this.)
    >
    > There is a port, /usr/misc/localedata that was designed to fix this
    > problem. In your shell's rc file you add
    >
    > PATH_LOCALE=/usr/local/share/compat/locale; export PATH_LOCAL
    >
    > (That's for a Bourne style shell, I am not sure of the csh syntax.)
    >
    > That should solve the problem. As your ports are gradually upgraded,
    > the problem should disappear. (Or you can always do a portupgrade -af,
    > which might not be a bad idea, as some other libraries have changed.)

    In fact it's strongly suggested that you *do* portupgrade -af, because
    *all* libraries changed and you're very likely to run into problems
    otherwise.

    Kris

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