Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:35:10 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, rfg@tristatelogic.com Subject: Re: Anybody know apt-get ? Message-ID: <AANLkTinX17o=FT54M79CsfnZF%2BHf7VyNptFTmCz-K6CV@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101107155831.67847.qmail@joyce.lan> References: <24360.1289127112@tristatelogic.com> <20101107155831.67847.qmail@joyce.lan>
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On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > In article <24360.1289127112@tristatelogic.com> you write: > >I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that > >reside in a package called "bsdutils". > > So get them, already. No need to screw around with Linux binary > installers, particularly not on the FreeBSD list: > > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/bsdutils > Of course you're correct for what the OP is doing but actually in way this a kind of a cool idea. If you could modify the apt-get installer to know FreeBSD's linux compat layout and brand the binaries appropriately you would have a fabously easy method of installing linux bins although I guess you'd have better luck doing it yum rather than apt-get. -- Adam Vande More
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