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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:12:12 -0500
From:      "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Novembre <novembre@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: linux 2.6 on 7.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20080603161212.GA49615@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080603110607.31037ihwi7u55oso@webmail.leidinger.net>
References:  <3b47caa90806011858y69b04edap806f34712c346b52@mail.gmail.com> <20080602075128.GA67510@freebsd.org> <20080602210128.GA36770@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20080603110607.31037ihwi7u55oso@webmail.leidinger.net>

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:06:07AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> (from Mon, 2  
> Jun 2008 16:01:28 -0500):
> 
> >Howso?  I always get the error:
> >
> >compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 is not supported
> 
> What operation are you doing to get this error? If you install a linux  
> base port which depends upon 2.6: you need to switch the linuxulator  
> into 2.6 mode first. See other mails here. IF you do something else:  
> pleas show us the command.

portmaster -gDb emulators/linux_base-fc6

Perhaps the suggestion to setting compat.linux.osrelease should be
specified in the port's Makefile, maybe part of the IGNORE message.  I
would not have thought to do that; it's very unobvious.

-- Rick C. Petty



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