Linux c7

[Stari Karp]

On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 15:14 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 07:45:57 -0500 Stari Karp <starikarp at yandex.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > I like to upgrad4 Linux_base ports c6 to c7 on FreeBSD 11-RELEASE
> > (amd64).
> > Is it safe to do, please?
> > Is it enough to put in make.conf:
> > OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=c7
> > OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=c7
> I think I've fixed most problems now so they should be safe.  You
> should
> know though that CentOS 7.2 is older then 6.8.  Not all c7 packages
> contain a newer version.  Also, c7 officially supports only amd64.
> Centos.org still provides 32 bit packages, but packages from other
> sources tend to be 64 bit only.  The linux-c7-* infrastructure ports
> support 64 bit but all Linux application ports are still 32 bit as
> far
> as I know.  So whether c7 works for you depends on which applications
> you
> want to run.
> 
> To switch to c7:
> 1. Remove linux_base-c6 and everything that depends on it.
> 2. Make sure that the directories bin, lib, lib64 and sbin in
>    /compat/linux are gone, because they will become symbolic links.
> 3. Add DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=linux=c7 (32 bit only) or
>    DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=linux=c7_64 (32 and 64 bit support) to
>    /etc/make.conf.
> 4. Install linux_base-c7 and other ports.

Thank you very much.