Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:32:56 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Making linux-c7 default? Message-ID: <20180829103256.6fe1a0f8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tKZ-2U79cw2P9mdAB=etd_NR2p1W8RcO2iOGhYgSpG4Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1tKZ-2U79cw2P9mdAB=etd_NR2p1W8RcO2iOGhYgSpG4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:32:12 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any plan to make linux-c7 the default version? I've been using it > for months with no problems and I have not seen issues reported by others, > so I have been expecting to see the default change for a while, now. > > The main issue I have is that packages are still being built with the > rather aged c6 and that forces me to keep building some large ports > manually, especially chromium. On my small system, this takes about 12 > hours, all because the port is built with a dependency on linux_base-c6. I was thinking of November, after FreeBSD 10 EoL, because I'm not sure FreeBSD 10 has all the kernel bits to run c7. Maybe we can already make the switch for 11 and 12 though. I don't see how chromium depends on linux_base by the way. It's not in the output of "make all-depends-list".
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