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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc: "Reginald S. Perry" <reggie@lambdawerks.org>,
	freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Installing linux_base 6.1 
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:> I am currently having a problem installing linux_base, both the port and the
:> package on -current. I used to lurk to discover these problems by browsing
:> the mailing list, but they are down. :-(
:> 
:> I just cvsupped and rebuilt the world today and it still fails. Here are the
:> messages:
:
:Yes, I've seen this also.  For some reason, either the linux_base
:package or pkg_add is broken here, and I'm tending to suspect the
:latter at this point since there shouldn't be any attempt to cd to
:/compat, nowhere in the packing list does it say to do that.  Methinks
:a buffer is overflowing somewhere.
:
:- Jordan

    I had similar problems trying to install the latest linux_base onto
    a system which previously had the old (/compat/linux) version.

    I wound up having to rm -rf /compat/linux and /usr/compat/linux and
    then doing the make install, which worked.  It created /usr/compat/linux
    and didn't seem to care that no /compat/linux existed.  However,
    other linux programs (e.g. the linux netscape) still look in /compat so 
    I had to create a softlink from /compat/linux to /usr/compat/linux
    in order for netscape to run.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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