HEADSUP: new linux infrastructure ports are committed

[Rainer Hurling]

Hello Boris,

thank you for the work. It seems their is a small difference between 
this discussion and /usr/ports/UPDATING.

In this thread we are talking about

     OVERRIDE_LINUX_NON_BASE_PORTS

and in UPDATING their is

     USE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS  (without the underscore).

What is the right spelling?

Rainer


Am 01.04.2009 17:34 (UTC+1) schrieb Boris Samorodov:
> Hello List,
> 
> 
> I've just committed new Linux Fedora 8 infrastructure ports. That was
> a long awaited commit. Thanks for all who helped me here. 47 new
> ports are introduced as well as a new linux ports infrastructure
> which made it possible to co-exist ports from different linux
> distros at our ports tree. The worked lasted for more than a year.
> 
> The above mentioned infrasrtucture allows using different linux
> base ports and non-base infrastructure ports. Users should define
> at their /etc/make.conf two variables: OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT
> and OVERRIDE_LINUX_NON_BASE_PORTS. The valid value for the latter
> is "f8".
> 
> As you may already know, only 8-CURRENT is compatible with
> compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16. FreeBSD-7.x is not fully
> compatible due to lack of some syscalls, etc. Those syscalls
> cannot be MFCed due to native FreeBSD ABI breakage. Some
> applications may work fine though.
> 
> New infrastructure ports as well as linux_base-f8 are not defaults for
> any FreeBSD version so far. Please test and report any
> inconsistency.
> 
> Following linux applications are known to work (along with locales
> where they are applicable):
> . acroread8;
> . linux-opera;
> . linux-realplayer;
> . linux-seamonkey;
> . linux-thunderbird.
> 
> I didn't manage to make those applications to work:
> . google-earth (crashes while loading, uses linux_dri);
> . skype (seems to work but for ru_RU.UTF-8 locale russian letters are shown
>   like squares).
> 
> I hope that nothing should got broken by this commit,
> but you know, things happen from time to time...
> 
> Please, read /usr/ports/UPDATING for instructions to
> upgrade to the new linux-f8 ports infrastructure.
> 
> Not done:
> ---------
> 1. textproc/linux-f8-aspell uses only default (English?) language;
>    any help is appreciated;
> 2. there is no apropriate graphics/linux_dri port; someone with
>    scills to write it down is needed. Futher information one
>    can find at emulation@ archieves and graphics/linux_dri[-devel]
>    ports;
> 3. I failed to find a Fedora 8 openmotif package, so the old
>    one is used;
> 4. for webauth is used linux-nvu since I don't have any
>    evidence if linux-kompozer should be used.
> 
> Have fun and be happy! ;-)
> 
> 
> WBR