Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

[Chris H]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:11:10 +0000 Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org> wrote

> 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.
LOL right you are *again*.
Immediately after replying to your last response, I checked
the current status of 'compat.linux.osrelease'
which, as you might have guessed, returned 2.18.
So I simply entered it manually, followed by
cd'ing to emulators/linux_base-c6;make install.
Which went beautifully.

SO. In my humble defense; UPDATING indicated sysctl.conf(5),
when it *actually* meant sysctl(8). :-)

Thank you very much, for taking the time to respond, Gary!

--Chris
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary