Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:58:48 -0100 From: Bart van Leeuwen <bart@ixori.demon.nl> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RC2, some problems. Message-ID: <38B70928.D20A72F1@ixori.demon.nl>
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Hi all, After getting me an iso image of RC2 and trying to install it I encountered 2 small problems. Both are easy to solve for the more expereinced user, but are annoying nonetheless. Both have to do with the packages collection on the cd. 1. Netscape Communicator 4.7 for FreeBSD. as most people prolly know, this program requires aout libs, and not just the stuff from compatxx, but also the aout libs for X11. The two ways a user has to fix this are either grabbing a copy of the aout libs somewhere or recompiling xfree with aout libs. Both are not too hard to do as long as your system is connected to the internet, but if not then you are bound to have a harder time getting this to work. Adding the XFree86 aout libs either as an option to the X distribution or as a seperate package would be a good solution. Also, quite a few people who tried RC2 here found it rather strange to find a package on the CD (netscape) that requires something to be able to run that is not installed as a dependency and worse, that they cannot find back on the distribution at all. Its silly that netscape doesnt use the ELF libraries, but its also very silly to include software on a distribution while knowing that it requires something thats not included (or at least hard to find) I'm aware this is older then 4.0 (actually I think it dates back to 3.0) but imho its a problem because it makes the distribution look incomplete and badly tested (X + netscape is one of the first things a new user will try to install and run nowadays) One could also install the linux version, but heh, being able to run a linux version but not the native version doesn't look very good either. (not to say its even more silly) 2. linux_base When installing fbsd, a directory /usr/compat is created and it is linked to /compat When trying to install the linux_base package, it fails with a message that it can't cwd to /compat It seems to expect a directory while it finds a link. Removing the link and creating a /compat dir makes that it installs perfectly well. Of course this is not hard to circumvent, but still, its annoying. As I said, relatively small problems, but imho fixing them is quite a good idea. If anyone thinks I should fix them instead of complain... well... point me where to start and I'll try ;-) For the rest, keep up the good work, 4.0-current has been running here for a long time now, and if the release is just as stable as most of the current builts that I ran so far, then things look very bright to me ;-) regards, Bart van Leeuwen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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