From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 12:51:48 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 8B28B37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f76.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB5343E3B for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:51:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:51:47 -0700 Received: from 66.89.179.250 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:51:46 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.89.179.250] Reply-To: jmd17@columbia.edu From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: linux compatibility in 4.7 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:51:46 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Oct 2002 19:51:47.0213 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A0C0BD0:01C2793B] 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 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