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

[Bart Smaalders]

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 still prefer my boot time approach - root image is still portable, 
just like
it's portable wrt processor features today.

- Bart


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