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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:31 AM

Last time I needed Linux emulation in OpenBSD, there were some issues,
like mismatching version of shared objects or whatever. I decided to
take a peek at /ports/emulators/redhat and was surprised to find the
distinfo file pointing to
MASTER_SITE_REDHAT:=redhat/linux/6.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/. Why does
the port use base of RH6.2 and not base of latest release of RH?

Additionally, must RH packages be used to obtain Linux compatibility
under OpenBSD, or will for instance Slackware packages be ok too?

I would appreciate if someone could shed light on the whole
compat_linux thing. Please, don't redirect me to compat_linux page,
since I have been there several times.

Regards,
FM

#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:31 AM

On 24 Aug 2003, FM wrote:

> Last time I needed Linux emulation in OpenBSD, there were some issues,
> like mismatching version of shared objects or whatever. I decided to
> take a peek at /ports/emulators/redhat and was surprised to find the
> distinfo file pointing to
> MASTER_SITE_REDHAT:=redhat/linux/6.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/. Why does
> the port use base of RH6.2 and not base of latest release of RH?

it's used 8.0 for some time, but that kind of change doesn't make it back
into 3.3. 3.4 packages set will use rh 8.0.

> Additionally, must RH packages be used to obtain Linux compatibility
> under OpenBSD, or will for instance Slackware packages be ok too?

you can probably use whatever libs you want. redhat was picked because a
lot of commercial software is compiled against it.

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#3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:31 AM

Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu> writes:

> it's used 8.0 for some time, but that kind of change doesn't make it back
> into 3.3. 3.4 packages set will use rh 8.0.

OTOH, I used the redhat-base-8.0 port on 3.3 with good success
(I cvs'd my ports tree just before the systrace/patch -z stuff
appeared, and built the redhat-base port.)
One might even have success with the binary package from
snapshots..

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