From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 23 4:51:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from m2.bezeqint.net (m2.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A32F37B405 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 04:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-144-87.pop.bezeqint.net [212.179.144.87]) by m2.bezeqint.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AMP44582; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:51:37 +0200 (IST) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fANCrZ802584 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:53:35 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nimrodm) From: Nimrod Mesika Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:53:35 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux-base 6.2 vs linux-base 7 Message-ID: <20011123145335.A2542@localhost.bsd.net.il> Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dinesh@alphaque.com on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:44:28PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:44:28PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > hey, > > have linux-base 6.2 installed and working fine for a bunch of linux > binaries including staroffice 5.2 and netscape-linux, both from the ports > collection. planning on trying out staroffice 6.0-beta, but it depends on > linux_base-7. > > my question is if i used portsupgrade to replace linux base 6.2 with 7, > will anything else break ? would love to hear user experiences on this > one. I tried moving to Linux_base-7 to be able to run a precompiled binary of galeon. Not only did galeon not run, but I haven't been able to make any version of linux netscape work with Linux base 7. Settled for a natively compiled Mozilla binary instead. -- Nimrod. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message