Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:44:29 +0100 From: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Replace Fedora 10 with CentOS 6.5 as Base Linux distro. Message-ID: <20140309114429.9b571374615a7268b9b4fc85@yamagi.org> In-Reply-To: <20140306131629.GC15325@mx12.chaot.net> References: <20140306131629.GC15325@mx12.chaot.net>
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Hello, thank's for your hard work. :) I gave it a try today. Installation (into a clean chroot) was unproblematic. While I didn't test Skype or Flash I can confirm that several Linux games are now running out of the box without manual upgrading of libraries like libstdc++ or libc. Regards, Yamagi On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:16:29 +0200 Johannes Meixner <xmj@chaot.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working on replacing the base linux distribution (currently rusty old > Fedora 10) with CentOS 6.5, likewise for about two dozen non-base ports - mostly > requirements of either net-im/skype4 or www/linux-c6-flashplugin11. > > I mentioned that before on the -emulation@ mailinglist and got very helpful > feedback. > > As I've run out of issues to fix and would like to reach a wider audience for > these ports, I'd appreciate if you could help me test it some more. > > To do that, you can either: > * download the txz from http://xmj.me/freebsd/linux-ports.txz > * download the diff from http://xmj.me/freebsd/linux-ports.diff.xz > > * clone my git repo; https://github.com/xmj/linux-ports/ (preferred) > > and copy/apply them to your portstree. > > In order to get either Skype 4.2.0.13 or Flash running, you can follow the > instructions listed on > > https://github.com/xmj/linux-ports/blob/master/README.md > > I hope they're by now sufficient to allow you to follow them "blindly". If not, > I appreciate feedback here on the mailing list as well as Issues/Pull requests. > > Best regards and have fun testing, > > Johannes > > -- > xmj@chaot.net > http://xmj.me -- Homepage: www.yamagi.org XMPP: yamagi@yamagi.org GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB
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