Date: 15 Jan 2000 04:41:19 -0800 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with linux_base-6.1 Message-ID: <vqciu0vh5hs.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:05:50 %2B0100" References: <387E163E.16722C62@scc.nl> <vqc3ds0j3rq.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <3880386E.A83AB6BA@scc.nl>
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* From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
* > 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).
Yes, that's what I figured. (Just checking.)
* > 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.
No. There are millions out there who want to run the latest ports
with release systems. That's why I make "upgrade kits" to help them.
* 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?
I'm not sure what you mean here, do people with 3.3R and 3.4R run into
problems with linux_base? Or are you saying they shouldn't be running
linux_base from ports-current?
If it's the latter, please add the check, given the nature of your
work I understand that it is impossible to make it work on older
releases, but those who try need to get a easy-to-understand message.
-PW
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