From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 21: 5:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9646F37B91B for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA13968; Wed, 24 May 2000 04:05:02 GMT (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200005240357.WAA10049@noel.cs.rice.edu> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:35:02 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mohit Aron Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, (Jordan K. Hubbard) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-May-00 Mohit Aron wrote: > Yes, that looks promising. That'll possibly enable one to install rpms > easily on FreeBSD. You can try this too.. rpm --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbbath /var/lib/rpm --nodeps --replacepkgs foo.rpm I did this to install Linux gtk libs a while ago and it worked (note its stolen from the linux_base port) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message