From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 15:10:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEDE16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:10:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FBE43D46 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:10:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from hawkwind.Chelsea-Ct.Org (pool-151-199-91-61.roa.east.verizon.net [151.199.91.61]) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7EFA6sT049303 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:10:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.25] (zappa [192.168.1.25])i7EF9xgS012870; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:10:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Mather To: Rob DeMarco 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> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092496198.65660.25.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:09:59 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:10:09 -0000 On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 03:50, Rob DeMarco wrote: > 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. You can instruct portupgrade to use binary packages only when upgrading. See the "-PP" option for details. Be careful when using partial ports trees that you get all the portions a package needs. (Portupgrade still needs to be able to determine what the latest version is of a port and its dependencies.) Also, if you do decide to force-delete emulators/linux_base 6 and pkg_add emulators/linux_base 7 then be sure to run "pkgdb -F" to fix up the dependencies. > I could try a direct pkg_add from the FBSD-5 ports tree (it all > goes into /compat anyway, right?) but I'm not sure about the kld > issue. Anyway, I'll think about my options, and whether compiling > from scratch is really worth it for me. Thanks for your help! There is a linux_base-7.1_7.tgz in the packages-4.10-release/emulators directory on ftp.freebsd.org (under /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386). That would be a better option for you, IMHO, if you're running 4-STABLE. I seem to recall when installing linux_base-8 that the only thing it actually compiled and built was the rpm package (a dependency). The rest was just fetching and unpacking various RPMs. So, I wouldn't worry about too much compilation demands for this particular port. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa