Moving to a more recent linux base, when?

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 23 18:06:44 PDT 2007


On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:46:39PM +0800, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> recently I had a look at the upcoming version of the PCB layout tool
> eagle, in beta test at the moment. I am currently maintaining both the
> international (cad/linux-eagle) and german ports of this tool.
> This new beta version however refuses to run as it depends on
> glibc-2.4 while our linux_base-fc4 ships glibc 2.3.6.
> Do we have a roadmap or an estimated timeframe as to when a more
> recent linux_base and their extra packages (linux-xorg and such)
> becomes standard for the ports tree?

first we have to have 2.6 emulation on default, then we can switch
to default linux-base-fc6.

I plan to do the switch to 2.6 emulation on default when 7.0R is shipped.

roman


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