Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:05:50 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with linux_base-6.1 Message-ID: <3880386E.A83AB6BA@scc.nl> References: <387E163E.16722C62@scc.nl> <vqc3ds0j3rq.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
>
> I don't assume the kernel can be safely loaded on older release
> kernels to get the desired effect?
I don't want to promote that. People should upgrade the complete kernel
source at a minimum, IMO. Since I specifically noted that the mail
applies to FreeBSD-stable, I assume they know how to update sources
(otherwise they wouldn't be running -stable).
> In that case, I can't put them in
> the upgrade kits, can you modify the port to check ${OSVERSION} and
> exit with a message if the user's system is too old?
Is that necessary? The ports collection isn't designed for older
systems. Most of the ports will work anyway, but some of them don't.
linux_base-6.1 will work on 3.3-RELEASE as well IIRC, that doesn't mean
that the linux kernel module is up to it; but that the story of the its
life :-)
I deliberately waited until well after 3.4 to upgrade the port, so that
it will be in 4.0 and we have enough time to fix any problems on -stable
for 3.5.
People running into problems now should be running -stable, not 3.4
release or older, right?
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