From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Dec 21 02:14:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA02677 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 02:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA02671 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 02:14:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id UAA25919; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:44:46 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA15048; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:44:45 +1030 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:44:45 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Mike Smith Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux RPM on FreeBSD, anyone doing this? In-Reply-To: <199812211004.CAA01419@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > /usr/ports/misc/rpm? I've only ever used this to install one RPM package, but > > it seemed to work. > > > > Or am I missing the point? > > If you can tell me how to coerce it so that it will use /compat/linux > as the root for all installations, that'd do the trick. Unfortunately > it appears to be another piece of Quality Linux Software. Ugh. Sorry, my one datapoint's worth of experience won't do you much good :) All I know about RPM is that it likes to install sources into /var and compile them from there, apparently :) Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message