From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 15:19:12 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D043861A; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from astart2.astart.com (wsip-72-214-30-30.sd.sd.cox.net [72.214.30.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8ED0F12; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop_93.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by astart2.astart.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t1CFJBZK014810; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:19:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papowell@astart.com) Message-ID: <54DCC46F.5030301@astart.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:19:11 -0800 From: Patrick Powell Reply-To: papowell@astart.com Organization: Astart Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports ML Subject: Re: /compat/linux and /usr/compat/linux References: <54D4EF23.7050604@astart.com> <20150208111022.4094218f@ernst.home> <54DA6B4B.6080708@astart.com> <201502111823.t1BINXdp009344@higson.cam.lispworks.com> In-Reply-To: <201502111823.t1BINXdp009344@higson.cam.lispworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:19:12 -0000 On 02/11/15 10:23, Martin Simmons wrote: >> > FWIW, the pre-9.0 installer (sysinstall) creates /usr/compat with /compat > linked to it, but it bsdinstall doesn't. See > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2011-December/009339.html > > __Martin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > This is what I was wondering about. So it happened wayback... I suspect that creating a symbolic link from /compat to (say) /usr/compat or /usr/local/compat would cause problems with ports and PKGng. Not on installation but on deletion and/or update. Any comments from the freebsd-ports? -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies papowell@astart.com 1530 Jamacha Rd, Suite X Network and System San Diego, CA 92019 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 Web: www.astart.com