From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 2 10:15:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8730D10656C0 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:15:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from amailer.gwdg.de (amailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1928D8FC18 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:15:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from wald.nfv.gwdg.de ([134.76.242.31] helo=pc028.nfv) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LpJAv-00073B-IW; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:25:29 +0200 Message-ID: <49D48486.3030008@gwdg.de> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:25:26 +0200 From: Rainer Hurling User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Boris Samorodov References: <23488525@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <23488525@bb.ipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated: Id:rhurlin X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: new linux infrastructure ports are committed X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 02 Apr 2009 10:15:20 -0000 Hello Boris, thank you for the work. It seems their is a small difference between this discussion and /usr/ports/UPDATING. In this thread we are talking about OVERRIDE_LINUX_NON_BASE_PORTS and in UPDATING their is USE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS (without the underscore). What is the right spelling? Rainer Am 01.04.2009 17:34 (UTC+1) schrieb Boris Samorodov: > Hello List, > > > I've just committed new Linux Fedora 8 infrastructure ports. That was > a long awaited commit. Thanks for all who helped me here. 47 new > ports are introduced as well as a new linux ports infrastructure > which made it possible to co-exist ports from different linux > distros at our ports tree. The worked lasted for more than a year. > > The above mentioned infrasrtucture allows using different linux > base ports and non-base infrastructure ports. Users should define > at their /etc/make.conf two variables: OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT > and OVERRIDE_LINUX_NON_BASE_PORTS. The valid value for the latter > is "f8". > > As you may already know, only 8-CURRENT is compatible with > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16. FreeBSD-7.x is not fully > compatible due to lack of some syscalls, etc. Those syscalls > cannot be MFCed due to native FreeBSD ABI breakage. Some > applications may work fine though. > > New infrastructure ports as well as linux_base-f8 are not defaults for > any FreeBSD version so far. Please test and report any > inconsistency. > > Following linux applications are known to work (along with locales > where they are applicable): > . acroread8; > . linux-opera; > . linux-realplayer; > . linux-seamonkey; > . linux-thunderbird. > > I didn't manage to make those applications to work: > . google-earth (crashes while loading, uses linux_dri); > . skype (seems to work but for ru_RU.UTF-8 locale russian letters are shown > like squares). > > I hope that nothing should got broken by this commit, > but you know, things happen from time to time... > > Please, read /usr/ports/UPDATING for instructions to > upgrade to the new linux-f8 ports infrastructure. > > Not done: > --------- > 1. textproc/linux-f8-aspell uses only default (English?) language; > any help is appreciated; > 2. there is no apropriate graphics/linux_dri port; someone with > scills to write it down is needed. Futher information one > can find at emulation@ archieves and graphics/linux_dri[-devel] > ports; > 3. I failed to find a Fedora 8 openmotif package, so the old > one is used; > 4. for webauth is used linux-nvu since I don't have any > evidence if linux-kompozer should be used. > > Have fun and be happy! ;-) > > > WBR