From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 18:35:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C001106567B for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:35:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8808FC2D for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from [85.173.16.38] (helo=moosa) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1KsM4i-000Ae5-Cf; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:35:24 +0400 To: ross.cameron@linuxpro.co.za References: <35f70db10810211125v71572b87rcf8025cad5ee00d0@mail.gmail.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:35:17 +0400 In-Reply-To: <35f70db10810211125v71572b87rcf8025cad5ee00d0@mail.gmail.com> (Ross Cameron's message of "Tue\, 21 Oct 2008 20\:25\:37 +0200") Message-ID: <72011930@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Building a linuxbase-***** X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:35:26 -0000 On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:25:37 +0200 Ross Cameron wrote: > I have a bit of an odd question and hopefully this will be the right place > to ask (please bare with me)........ > I'd like to know how to build a Linuxulator OS image of a custom GNU/Linux > distro I've inherited the maintenance of. > On top of this distro several binary only applications are run. > HOWEVER I'd like to take advantage of the fBSD 7 kernel and IP_Filter in the > next release,... while maintaining compatibility with the Linux API/ABI. > Does anyone have some pointers as to where to find some /GOOD/ docs on how > to build the Linuxulator "linuxbase-****" packages??? I'm not aware of such docs. If you need a custom linux_base-XXX package then use those packages that contains binaries (don't forget to brandelf them) and libraries (don't brandelf them) you need. Take a look at those linux_base ports (available at the ports tree) as an example. WBR -- bsam