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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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