From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 15 22:50:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C064F37B417; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fAG6orQ37631; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:50:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAG6pHt14971; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:51:17 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Andreas Klemm Cc: "David O'Brien" , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PORTVERSION=6.1 wrong in linux_base-62 ??? Message-ID: <20011115225117.A1610@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20011112060014.GA489@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20011111232603.A14074@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20011115090311.C2084@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011115123424.B36113@kayak.xcllnt.net> <20011115154248.B1031@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011115210034.A721@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20011116062148.GA3852@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011116062148.GA3852@titan.klemm.gtn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i 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 On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:21:49AM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:00:34PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:42:48PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > > One > > > that provides RH 6.x compat and one that provides RH 7.x compatibility? > > > > In principle, yes. Once 6.x support is no longer needed we can remove > > the port. If Red Hat 8.x sees the day of light we can simply create > > a linux_base-8 port as necessary. If we need for more than a single > > release line, multiple ports can exist. > > I hope other people get that backward compat better done than > I with a _crude_ hack, that finally didn't work. That's the whole point. If Red Hat doesn't provide the backward compatibility, then they very likely have a very good reason for it. I think it's best we take that as a pretty strong hint that compatibility is not going to work, unless we're willing to do things Red Hat itself is not willing to do. By all means, it's not worth it... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message