kernel config question
Kevin Oberman
rkoberman at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 06:40:23 UTC 2019
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 5:02 PM Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> John Baldwin writes:
>
> > - [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed
> to
> > - do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
> > - your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
> > - hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
> > - required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on
> > - for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
> > + [8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by
> > + an installworld. When upgrading across major versions, the new
> > + kernel's configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n>
> > + option for existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x
> > + binaries). Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
> > + hard to boot to recover. A GENERIC kernel will include suitable
> > + compatibility options to run binaries from older branches.
>
> Maybe not perfect, but _much_ better.
> Thanks.
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
>
> Robert Huff
>
Some ports may require compat ports. E.g. plexmediaserver requires
compat9x. Oddly, compat9x requires compat10x, so I need 9, 10, and 11.
Now that 10 is EOL, I wish Plex would start building their blobs against 11.
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