From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 15:21:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFD337B404 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11F943F93 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1D666B9B; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 36D26796; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:21:14 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Aaron Levin Message-ID: <20030711222114.GA55827@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030711215502.GA55456@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030711145857.X68125-100000@raider.bepress.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030711145857.X68125-100000@raider.bepress.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: problem with new /usr/ports/archivers/rpm checkin X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:21:16 -0000 --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:02:49PM -0700, Aaron Levin wrote: > i don't want to waste your time further, but i am running a 4.6.2 system > with linux_base6 and i need to go to the latest linux_base (linux 7). i > already have this built and tested on a test machine. looking at the > install, it appears that i can simply tar up my good /usr/compat/linux > directory from the test machine and replace the existing /usr/compat/linux > directory on my production machine and everything will to work. >=20 > i have tested doing this on a different machine, but i would like your > opinion. >=20 > do you suggest i don't do this? all systems are 4.6.2. It should probably work for this port, or you could just try installing a linux_base7 package (not every package will work on older releases because they depend on OS changes). kris --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/DzhZWry0BWjoQKURAt65AKDkOe0+NpMsXDfBKOiAaIhA/hXD6QCgp1ct lDmaYmmlJ5UIFeKZdOdH0yY= =SL5n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--