Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:19:30 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How should follks migrate from linux_base-c6 to linux_base-c7? Message-ID: <20191231161930.4c09130e@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20191231132839.GT1088@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20191231132839.GT1088@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 05:28:39 -0800 David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote: > As noted in > <http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201912302038.xBUKcol9050658>, > the -c6 ports "expire tomorrow." > > I don't see a documented process for migrating from linux_base-c6 to > linux_base-c7; perhaps I'm being thicker than usual. > > For example, from prior migrations (e.g., the 20141209 entry in > ports/UPDATING), there's a mention of: > > | 2. Persistently update the Linux kernel version in /etc/sysctl.conf: > | > | compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18 This was needed when the default value was 2.4.<something>, but nowadays the default is already higher than 2.6.18 so you can just remove this. Besides that it's just a matter of removing c6 packages and installing c7 packages.
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