ipv6 related warnings
Alexander Best
alexbestms at math.uni-muenster.de
Mon Sep 28 13:24:04 UTC 2009
Dag-Erling Smørgrav schrieb am 2009-09-28:
> Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > > No, you can build a *kernel* without IPv6, just not userland.
> > > Parts
> > > of userland will respect WITHOUT_INET6, others won't, and others
> > > yet
> > > will build but not run correctly.
> > So shouldn't those disrespecting parts of userland be fixed?
> Why? In most (userland) cases, it takes more work to write code that
> supports IPv4 but not IPv6 than to write code that supports both.
> > Besides, returning to the original post, those messages weren't
> > there
> > just a few days ago, this is a new addition.
> ...if by "just a few days" you mean "two weeks". If this really is
> "a
> new addition", it dates back to one of hrs@'s commits on 2009-09-13.
> However, the most likely cause of the OP's problem is incorrect use
> of
> mergemaster. If he did indeed run "mergemaster -p" and "mergemaster
> -i", but nothing more, his /etc is completely out of sync.
mergemaster -p and mergemaster -i aren't sufficient to sync /etc with
/usr/src/etc? but that's what UPDATING recommends.
alex
> DES
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