binary files in src tree

Wes Peters wes at softweyr.com
Mon Jan 12 08:45:23 PST 2004


On Monday 12 January 2004 05:53 am, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:48:19PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> >   While browsing the FreeBSD src tree, I came across a number of
> > binary files (listed below); the regression tests are perhaps
> > understandable, but shouldn't the rest of these files be uuencoded?
> >
> > tools/regression/usr.bin/uudecode/regress.out
> > tools/regression/usr.bin/uuencode/regress.in
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Those that are found in src/contrib/ and src/crypto/, at least, should
> not be touched.  However, it seems likely that some or all of them in
> that case are not actually used in FreeBSD.  Those that are not used
> should perhaps be removed.  I'll put reviewing the src/crypto/openssl/
> cases on my todo list for the next import.

The two binary files used to test uuencode/uudecode should NOT be 
uuencoded, for obvious reasons.

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com



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