From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 24 15: 7:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1586637BCBC for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 15:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4OM6wB27918; Wed, 24 May 2000 15:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:06:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Mohit Aron , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 May 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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 Or: /compat/linux/bin/bash rpm .... Running Linux-based installers directly in the FreeBSD environment can Cause Problems(tm), particularly if they're shells scripts that make assumptions. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message