Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:44:45 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux RPM on FreeBSD, anyone doing this? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812212041150.7536-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199812211004.CAA01419@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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
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