Re: Linux subsystem requirement

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 04:58:45 UTC 
<https://www.freshports.org/emulators/linux_base-rl9/#requiredby>

emulators/linux_base-rl9 is a runtime requirement for fifty-five ports.


On 28/06/2025 02:45, Steve Rikli wrote:

> … I don't see a package called "linux-compat-rl9"


Yep, not many ports have 'compat' in the name:

<https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=name&method=match&query=compat&num=100&category=&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=plaintext&branch=head>

– and none of those includes the phrase 'linux'.

I wondered whether it's the name of a file that's installed by a 
package. Probably not:

grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd ~> pkg provides linux-compat
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd ~> uname -mvKU
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n278294-5aedb8b1d4a6 GENERIC-NODEBUG amd64 
1500048 1500048
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd ~>