From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 01:01:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E3D106566C for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 01:01:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FC08FC1B for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 01:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F3A5C29; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:13:43 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 703055C21; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:13:43 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F288DCF.4040606@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:56:47 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <20120131194320.Horde.Jd2ac5jmRSRPKDZI2OvnaNA@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20120131194320.Horde.Jd2ac5jmRSRPKDZI2OvnaNA@webmail.leidinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: LTS linux for ports - ideas? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:01:11 -0000 On 02/01/12 04:43, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Oops, I forgot to keep emulation in CC... > > ----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht von Alexander Leidinger > ----- > Datum: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:10 +0100 > Von: Alexander Leidinger > Betreff: Re: LTS linux for ports - ideas? > An: Da Rock > > Quoting Da Rock (from > Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:43:49 +1000): > >> What is the consensus on the LTS linux distro to update the fedora 10 >> ports? Or at all? > > There is no consensus, as there was no discussion. > > If you want to discuss it here, I put up the following hard requirements: > - one which works with the linuxulator in 8/9 (no inotify, no epoll, > something else?)... no idea which one fits here, so be tested > (make a linux installation, copy the data to a FreeBSD system, > chroot into this directory, and run as much programs as possible) > - one which is known to be supported for a long time > > My personal suggestion is one which is RPM based, to be able to use > the existing linuxulator-ports-framework. Basically this means > probably CentOS, but I do not know another one. :) > > If someone wants to take a debian or whatever based distro, that's OK > too, but in this case the person discards some years of development > work of the existing framework (it's maybe not perfect, but it was > created during a lot of man-weeks) and is forced to re-learn > everything from scratch. He should also discuss design-decissions here > and be prepared for a steep learning curve. > > The one who does the work is in command. I will not object to > something which works and provides a similar seamless (or better) > integration into FreeBSD to what Boris and I did with the current ports. > >> I know Alexander has a page on howto do a linux-base port >> (theoretically)- hence the query... > > It's not only the work for a linux_base port, the infrastructure ports > have to be updated at the same time: > http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/08/29/howto-create-a-new-linux_base-port/ > > http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/09/01/howto-add-linux-infrastructure-ports-for-a-new-linux_base-port/ Sorry, I thought there would be more replies. Looks you are the emulation list Alex. I thought it would be centos, but I thought I'd see what everyone else thought about it. I was just making enquiries for support of a particular piece of software, but they don't support any linux version that we could provide- at least the rpms needed to run it just aren't around. So I noticed someone else wanted centos as well, and mentioned it could be an option if it worked. Just something I'm hoping to have a crack at in the future...