From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 8 15:37:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 655C237B405 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-31-219-45.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.31.219.45) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Sep 2001 22:37:31 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B9A9DAB.7010809@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:37:31 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: .@babolo.ru Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux_base: update in place or repo copy? References: <200109082219.CAA15275@aaz.links.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org .@babolo.ru wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar writes: > >>We have a choice to make. I can not update the current linux_base >>port in place without breaking a large portion of the current >>linux_base depending ports. We did that for 6.1 and there have >>been times I wished we didn't. >> >>OTOH, creating a linux_base-7, as I then like it to be called, >>has its disadvantages too. it's possible to track RH 7.x with >>it I assume, but what happens if RH 8.x is released. >> >>The choices are: >> >>1. We do not upgrade at all, >>2. We upgrade in place and live with any breakages it causes >> and do our best to resolve whatever needs to be resolved >> as quickly as possible, >>3. We "branch-off" and create a seperate port so that people >> have a choice which one they want to install. Maintainers >> can update their oown ports iat their leisure, >>4. Other; explain. >> > Is it possible to add new ELF type and brandelf -t > binaries as type "Linux" and "Linux7"? > And use /compat/linux and /compat/linux7 as roots. > This can be extended to Solaris versions. Sounds minimum-impact to me... what about ldconfig? jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! -------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message