Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

[Gary Palmer]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 06:09:04PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:51:06 +0000 Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org> wrote
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:44:55PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> > > I performed av svn update for both src (r279796),
> > > and ports (r380829) last night. building/installing
> > > world/kernel, went as one would hope. Upgrading ports
> > > was a different story. Given this box has an nVidia card.
> > > I usually start by upgrading emulators/linux_base; which
> > > according to UPDATING; meant linux_base-f10 --> linux_base-c6.
> > > I deinstalled x11/nvidia-driver, followed by
> > > emulators/linux_base-f10. I then attempted to make install
> > > emulators/linux_base-c6, which resulted in a message
> > > that it wasn't supported. So I simply cd'd to
> > > emulators/linux_base-f10, followed by make install. Which
> > > resulted in a CVE message; indicating it was vulnerable
> > > to glib issues. I'm now stuck w/o hardware support for
> > > my video card, and unable to effectively follow
> > > a safe port upgrade path, that enables me to keep the
> > > options I have chosen for my currently installed ports.
> > > Is there a *safe* linux_base available?
> > > 
> > > Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
> > 
> > If you set
> > 
> > sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18
> > 
> > you can install linux_base-c6 on RELENG_9
> > 
> > It works well enough at least for nvidia-driver, as my main desktop
> > is 9.3-RELEASE-p9 and has nvidia-driver and linux_base-c6-6.6_3 
> > installed
> > 
> > Remember to put
> > 
> > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18
> > 
> > into /etc/sysctl.conf so it's preserved on startup
> > 
> > I believe if you read the message from linux_base-c6 that's basically
> > what it told you to do.
> Thanks for the reply, Gary.
> Right you are. That's exactly what I did to stage for the upgrade;
> entered 'compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18' into etc/sysctl.conf
> rebooted, deinstalled x11/nvidia-driver, emulators/linux_base-f10,
> cd emulators/linux_base-c6; make install
> which led to:
> ===>  linux_base-c6-6.6_3 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16 is not supported,
> please use 2.6.18, BEWARE this is highly experimental.
> *** [all] Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-c6.
> 
> Thanks! and sorry for not being more detailed in the first place.

For some reason your sysctl.conf setting didn't take.  You should
investigate why and resolve that and then the port should work.

A temporary work around would be to run

sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18

from a root shell, but it won't last past reboot.

Regards,

Gary