From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 15 21:10:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3E037B417; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fAG5ADQ37454; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAG5Ab200839; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:10:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:10:37 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: "David O'Brien" , Andreas Klemm , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PORTVERSION=6.1 wrong in linux_base-62 ??? Message-ID: <20011115211037.B721@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20011115123424.B36113@kayak.xcllnt.net> <200111160336.fAG3abG13456@gits.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200111160336.fAG3abG13456@gits.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:36:37AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:03:11AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > [snip] > > > For linux_base, I don't see that need. The 7.1 version > > > should include any needed 6.2 "compat" libs(bits). > > > > No. The linux_base-7 port should install a minimal set of Red Hat 7.x > > packages. If Red Hat 7.x sucks, linux_base-7 will sucks. It's that > > simple... > > I guess David was thinking to something like linux_compat-7 which > install cleanly over linux_base-7 as linux_devtools and such do. > > so, linux ports which require 7.1 are safe w/ linux_base-7 and > the ones which require 6.x are safe w/ linux_compat-7. no more > need to install linux_base-7 over linux_base or whatever... We don't need ports for that. People have all the freedom to remove and install packages to tweak the environment for their needs. The port is kept clean especially for that reason. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message