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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Bart Smaalders wrote:
> 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.

Me too.  Bart, I'm willing to help out here to make something like this 
work out.  (I am somewhat constrained.)

    -- Garrett
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> - Bart
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