From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 4 17:59:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135FB106564A for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:59:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CE88FC13 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:59:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1MCHDg-000PK5-PM; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:59:16 +0400 To: Tsu-Fan Cheng References: From: Boris Samorodov Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:59:17 +0400 In-Reply-To: (Tsu-Fan Cheng's message of "Thu\, 4 Jun 2009 13\:15\:21 -0400") Message-ID: <24399562@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:59:18 -0000 On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:15:21 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi, Just use portmaster to upgrade ports and found out a lot of linux-* > ports are renewed. But strange to see that upgrading was interrupted by > ports conflicts, such as linux-f8-tiff and linux-tiff. Yes, those ports install files with the sane name/path, so they have a conflict and can't be used/unstalled together. > What I have are a > whole bunch of f8 stuff, I dont understand why portmaster choose to upgrade > ports that are not "f8". I don't use portmaster but you are first to complain. Can you show the output of "pkg_info -xI linux"? > And also curious to know which linux* is better? Hm, it a good question. ;-) The one which does what you need. But there are some security problems (seems with pango ports) which won't be resolved for Fedora Core 4 ports (since there is no new fixed packages). > with or without f8/f10? thank you!! It depends on your OS version and your tasks. The default (even for 8-CURRENT so far) is linux_base-fc4 and it's infrastructure ports. I think that for FreeBSD-6.x and lower there is no other alternative. For 7.2-RELEASE (and even better, 7-STABLE) one can use -f8- base and infrastructure ports. For recent 8-CURRENT one can use -f10- ports. There is a WIP to change this to default for 8-CURRENT. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve