From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 8:15: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4FF37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BEA243E75 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:15:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H4JMCZ00.55Q; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:14:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:15:00 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <14618792071.20021025171500@dds.nl> To: "John Daniels" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jmd17@columbia.edu Subject: Re: linux compatibility in 4.7 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Monday, October 21, 2002, 9:51:46 PM, you wrote: > Hi > During my install of 4.7-RELEASE I selected Linux compatibility. I saw a > message saying that it was istalling 6.1_3. I was surprised, and a little > bit miffed, because 4.7 was supposed to have upgraded Linux compatibility to > 7.1. > After the install, I checked on what packages where installed and I saw > linux_base-6.1_3 *AND* linux_base-7.1_1! Now I am confused. Are there > actually two packages? I would have thought that 7.1 would be backward > compatible, so a 6.1 would not be necessary. Is that not the case? > Can anyone explain, and maybe shed some further light on this? > Thanks! > (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. > _________________________________________________________________ > Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! > http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Dear John, I'm not sure, but my guess is that linux_base-6.1_3 isn't necessary and got installed by some form of minor bug. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html How to get the best results from FreeBSD-Questions http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message