Re: another 9.2 upgrade problem: the answer

Mouse <[email protected]> writes:

>> /rescue was of no use because its copy of tar had the same
>> dependencies.  Wouldn't it be better if basic utilities in /rescue
>> were statically linked?
>
> You mean they're not?!  They are in every version I run, and if they're
> not in 9.2 I would consider that a catastrophic regression.  Indeed, I
> would almost say that's half the point of /rescue.

Mouse: I'm glad you are well; had you not ranted I would have been
concerned.

But, looking at the rescue set unpacked:

$ file rescue/ls
rescue/ls: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for NetBSD 9.2, stripped

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