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From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile distinfo.alpha
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On Wed, 29 May 2002, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:01:51PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:23:36AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 09:05:04PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > > >   Upgrade to Red Hat 7.x support.  Many binary-only packages
> > > > >   are now requiring
> > > > >   Red Hat 7.x to run.
> > > >
> > > > We already have linux_base-7.
> > >
> > > Would you prefer no linux_base, but only linux_base-<version>?
> >
> > I would.  A lot of the Linux binary game servers in ports/games require
> > 6 rather than 7.
>
> I also believe this is why the introduction of a linux_base-7
> port by Marcel has had no effect - people that have ports
> that work with linux_base (V6) would effectively be breaking
> them by moving them to the SMALLER set of ports that work
> with linux_base-7.  Thus, there is no maintainer incentive
> for doing the upgrade.
Actually I only had to reinstall my old linux binaries and they
all work well with linux_base7 .

Or was I just lucky?

Regards,

Uli.


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