From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 30 12:20:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748B337B945 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:20:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@nwu.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA04698 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:20:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (areca-38-028106.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.106]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma004599; Sun, 30 Apr 00 14:19:56 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA06104 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:18:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:18:38 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Upgrading linux_base and using it Message-ID: <20000430141838.A6065@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to upgrade my linux_base from 5.2 to 6.1 but am a bit concerned that its dependencies will clobber some already-installed ports of the same name. For instance, linux_base wants to download a bash rpm, but I've already got bash installed from the ports tree. Will this rpm clobber my bash port, or will all be OK because it goes into /compat/linux/bin? The same goes with other rpms, like info. Can I just remove the linux_base package and then install the new one? There is no package listing for dependencies that I may have to remove first. Another question: With linux_base installed can I then just grab rpms, install them, and use them? The xfstt maintainer recommended I use the linux xfstt instead of the BSD version, so should I just grab the xfstt*.rpm and viola? -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message