Fixing "touch" to reset ancient/weired/far-future timestamps... / was: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:53:07AM -0700, John Plocher wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >I also remain unfond of the approach of turning a bunch of key programs 
> >in /usr/bin into isaexec() links.  While the isaexec() approach was not 
> >unreasonable for a few utilities that aren't run frequently like 
> >prtconf, I don't think the solution scales well.
> 
> Maybe there is an opportunity to leverage IPS here - have it install the
> correct binaries from the repo (32, 64, x64, SPARC, Power, ARM...) based
> on the isaexec-abilities of the target platform.
> 
> (i.e., don't do isaexec() at runtime, do it at install time :-)

Well, that would mean having x86/64 installs that can only boot in one
of 32-bit or 64-bit modes, but not both.  I personally don't mind.