linux 2.6 on 7.0-RELEASE

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd at kiwi-computer.com> (from Tue, 3  
Jun 2008 11:12:12 -0500):

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:06:07AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd at 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.

A normal user is not supposed to install the non-default f6  
(unfortunately skype requires it, so in case you come this way,  
complain to the maintainer of skype to not provide enough instructions  
for you). If someone installs f6, he is supposed to know enough about  
the topic that he doesn't stumbles over this problem. If someone  
stumbles over it, he doesn't know enough about it yet. f6 support is  
experimental stuff, so expect problems.

Bye,
Alexander.

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