Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:59:17 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: linux compatibility ports upgrade Message-ID: <24399562@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <f84c38580906041015m573c2bbcg3e464af3e84bab4@mail.gmail.com> (Tsu-Fan Cheng's message of "Thu\, 4 Jun 2009 13\:15\:21 -0400") References: <f84c38580906041015m573c2bbcg3e464af3e84bab4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:15:21 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi, Just use portmaster to upgrade ports and found out a lot of linux-* > ports are renewed. But strange to see that upgrading was interrupted by > ports conflicts, such as linux-f8-tiff and linux-tiff. Yes, those ports install files with the sane name/path, so they have a conflict and can't be used/unstalled together. > What I have are a > whole bunch of f8 stuff, I dont understand why portmaster choose to upgrade > ports that are not "f8". I don't use portmaster but you are first to complain. Can you show the output of "pkg_info -xI linux"? > And also curious to know which linux* is better? Hm, it a good question. ;-) The one which does what you need. But there are some security problems (seems with pango ports) which won't be resolved for Fedora Core 4 ports (since there is no new fixed packages). > with or without f8/f10? thank you!! It depends on your OS version and your tasks. The default (even for 8-CURRENT so far) is linux_base-fc4 and it's infrastructure ports. I think that for FreeBSD-6.x and lower there is no other alternative. For 7.2-RELEASE (and even better, 7-STABLE) one can use -f8- base and infrastructure ports. For recent 8-CURRENT one can use -f10- ports. There is a WIP to change this to default for 8-CURRENT. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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