Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:50:00 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to a more recent linux base, when? Message-ID: <20070823145000.tr2wulubs484ck0w@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <786602c60708222346s9d45d45o6ff7b362d67fe938@mail.gmail.com> References: <786602c60708222346s9d45d45o6ff7b362d67fe938@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com> (from Thu, 23 =20 Aug 2007 14:46:39 +0800): > Hi, > > recently I had a look at the upcoming version of the PCB layout tool > eagle, in beta test at the moment. I am currently maintaining both the > international (cad/linux-eagle) and german ports of this tool. > This new beta version however refuses to run as it depends on > glibc-2.4 while our linux_base-fc4 ships glibc 2.3.6. > Do we have a roadmap or an estimated timeframe as to when a more > recent linux_base and their extra packages (linux-xorg and such) > becomes standard for the ports tree? If you find a glibc-2.4 for FC4 we can import it somehow. If you =20 don't, we need to wait for the possibility to go to FC^ or newer. But =20 as from FC5 on, we need 2.6.x emulation for the linuxulator. This will =20 only be available in 7.x with x >=3D 1 (there's some support now, but it =20 is not finished), and only if activated by the user. So by default we =20 can not install FC6+ on 7.x (I doubt we will change the linuxulator =20 default to 2.6.x in the 7.x-timeframe). As we don't have good enough support for 2.6.x in 7-current, I didn't =20 even thought about how to tackle the ports collection part. Remember, =20 we have to support even 6.x for a while. Introducing the FC6+ ports is =20 easy, but how to do it in a good way which works on all supported =20 releases... Bye, Alexander. --=20 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. =09=09-- Walt Disney http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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