From owner-cvs-all Wed May 29 12:11:11 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA23237B405; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4TJB2Jn001550; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:11:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4TJB190001549; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:11:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Nik Clayton , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile distinfo.alpha distinfo.i386 pkg-plist.alpha pkg-plist.i386 Message-ID: <20020529121101.G386@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Eivind Eklund , Nik Clayton , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200205280235.g4S2ZPr85521@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020528040504.GB55559@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20020528002336.A33431@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020528190151.C64264@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20020529125053.A24253@phoenix.dmnstech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020529125053.A24253@phoenix.dmnstech.net>; from eivind@FreeBSD.org on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:50:53PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:50:53PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:01:51PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:23:36AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 09:05:04PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > Upgrade to Red Hat 7.x support. Many binary-only packages are now requiring > > > > > Red Hat 7.x to run. > > > > > > > > We already have linux_base-7. > > > > > > Would you prefer no linux_base, but only linux_base-? > > > > I would. A lot of the Linux binary game servers in ports/games require > > 6 rather than 7. > > Unless we make it possible to install *both* of these *at the same time*, with > difference on a port-by-port basis as to which is used, I think this is one of > the worst ideas since the triangular wheel. If the attempt to merge linux_base-{6,7} fails, I am thinking of enhancing brandelf to allow us to specify an "abi" which would be rh6, rh7, debian, etc... imgact_elf would then use the correct bits under /compat/{rh6,rh7,debian,etc...}. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message