From owner-cvs-all Tue May 28 14: 9: 8 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AED37B403; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C9603198D9; Tue, 28 May 2002 16:09:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:09:02 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Nik Clayton Cc: David O'Brien , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile distinfo.alpha distinfo.i386 pkg-plist.alpha pkg-plist.i386 Message-ID: <20020528210902.GB2869@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Nik Clayton , David O'Brien , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200205280235.g4S2ZPr85521@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020528040504.GB55559@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20020528002336.A33431@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020528190325.D64264@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020528190325.D64264@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:03:25PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:23:36AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 09:05:04PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > Upgrade to Red Hat 7.x support. Many binary-only packages are now requiring > > > > Red Hat 7.x to run. > > > > > > We already have linux_base-7. > > > > Would you prefer no linux_base, but only linux_base-? > > Thinking about this some more, would it be better to call it something > like 'redhat-linux-7' instead, opening up the possibility of > '{mandrake,debian,suse}-linux-n' ? It would be nice to try something better than redhat, but nobody really maintains linux_base, and I'm sure even less would have time for another linux emulation port. I was actually thinking about adding debian and giving that a try though. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message