Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:15:00 +0200 From: Alex <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jmd17@columbia.edu Subject: Re: linux compatibility in 4.7 Message-ID: <14618792071.20021025171500@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <F76EKNPsk2jSBV3tEOX00005912@hotmail.com> References: <F76EKNPsk2jSBV3tEOX00005912@hotmail.com>
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Monday, October 21, 2002, 9:51:46 PM, you wrote: > 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 Dear John, I'm not sure, but my guess is that linux_base-6.1_3 isn't necessary and got installed by some form of minor bug. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html How to get the best results from FreeBSD-Questions http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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