Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:00:03 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Rob DeMarco" <r.p.demarco@worldnet.att.net>, "Paul Mather" <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10 Message-ID: <opscp9adcv0cf2rk@sparky> In-Reply-To: <1092457151.4917.5.camel@worldnet.att.net> References: <20040813120110.A0D1116A4E0@hub.freebsd.org> <1092412538.52356.43.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> <1092457151.4917.5.camel@worldnet.att.net>
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:50:17 +0000, Rob DeMarco <r.p.demarco@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 15:55, Paul Mather wrote: >> You should be able to use portupgrade to upgrade your linux_base-6.1_6 >> to a more recent version. This does assume you have the ports tree >> installed (and preferably up to date via cvsup) under /usr/ports... > > While I have some familiarity with the ports tree, I didn't install > it this time because of limited disk space (though I suppose I could > do a partial port-tree install). Also, my P150 makes compiles long > and painful :) > To avoid all that, I'm trying to see if a simple binary pkg_add > to Linux-emul 7 would do the trick. Portupgrade can be made to use packages (see the man page), avoiding the compile problem. >> If you don't have portupgrade (sysutils/portupgrade), then you should >> install it. It's really useful! What he said. Jud
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