Linux Base 8 now works

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Nov 14 21:49:55 PST 2003


On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:59:04 -0800, David P. Reese, Jr. wrote:

> Thanks to recent mmap2() support...
> 
> The linux_base-8 port installs, however it is rather noisy when it tries
> to chown a number of files to rpm.rpm if you don't have an rpm user and
> group.  Tested with linux-mozilla, linux-opera, linux-netscape7.  The
> linux base system seems to work, eg. ls, which mostly uses the older
> mmap().  Thus, I don't think I've introduced any regressions.
> 
> The linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 port doesn't seem very happy, but I don't have linux
> procfs mounted.  That'll be my next experiment.

Correct, you have to mount the linux procfs to get linux-sun-jdk works
better. I am a maintainer for www/linux-opera, so thanks for remind me to
need update my how-to over at bsdforums.org about 1.4.2 of linux-sun-jdk
plugin for linux-opera. ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz


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