Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:00:04 -0800 (PST) From: Garance A Drosehn <drosehn@rpi.edu> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/35897: upgrading the linux_base port runs into trouble Message-ID: <200203150400.g2F404102102@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Garance A Drosehn <drosehn@rpi.edu>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: ports/35897: upgrading the linux_base port runs into trouble
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:58:36 -0500
Okay, it looks like the problem I ran into is at least partially an
interaction between the linux_base-7 and vmware2 ports. I have run into
this upgrade problem several times, and of course it always hits me just
when I don't have a lot of free time to deal with it...
Note that vmware2 is basically the only reason I install linux_base, so
my situation is probably different than the average user of the
linux_base ports. Also note that I have 'linux_enable=YES' in my
/etc/rc.conf file.
In any case, now that I have a little more time, I figured out that:
portupgrade linux_base
will work for me *if* I first type:
umount linprocfs
The upgrade itself completes fine, but at the end of the upgrade the
vmware2 program is broken. The upgrade removes the old linux_base-7
port, and installs the new, freshly-made version of that port. But it
seems that de-installing linux_base-7 will (all by itself) blow away
/compat/linux/dev. And because that is gone, the user will need to
re-install the vmware2 port to get vmware2 working again. All I had to
do was:
portupgrade -f vmware2
and reboot, and now I have both of those upgraded and vmware2 is working
fine for me.
So the de-install procedures for linux_base-7 probably need to be looked
at. What's there is probably fine if you really ARE removing
linux_base, but it causes problems during a port-upgrade situation.
That, and the problems it gets into if linprocfs is mounted.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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