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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:14:59 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Walter Venable <weaseal@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: linux_base-f8 giving me guff
Message-ID:  <20080429101459.GX18958@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <42172269@ipt.ru>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:46:10AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> (drop freebsd-ports@ from cross posting)
>=20
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:50:01 +0300 Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:37:18PM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Walter Venable <weaseal@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> > > > /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f8 $ sudo make
> > > > =3D=3D=3D>  linux_base-f8-8_3 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not =
supported.
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > >
> > > > Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f8.
> > > >
> > > > Ok -- I get it, linux kernel 2.4.2 isn't supported.  How do I get a=
round
> > > > this issue?  I'm running 6.3-RELEASE-p2...
> > >=20
> > > sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=3D2.6.16
>=20
> > The question that seems to be relevant there is why the port refuses to
> > install with some compat.linux.osrelease value ? Does port run some
> > linux binary during install time (unlikely) ?
>=20
> Any linux port that installs a shared library (including linux_base
> ports) runs linux ldconfig while (at the very end of) installing.
> Since that ldconfig cannot run with such an old kernel it stops with
> the error.

Thank you for the explanation. I propose the error condition to be
ignored, or warning to be printed etc. The ability to install linux-base
and app ports without even loading linux.ko seems to be too useful.

>=20
> > I think the port should ignore even absence of the linux.ko; the value
> > of the linux.osrelease is purely runtime issue as opposed to the install
> > time.
>=20
>=20
> WBR
> --=20
> bsam

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