From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 28 5:52:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF7137B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 05:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13TOOU-000Gw1-00; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:52:06 +0200 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:52:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Jason La Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD Packaging System Message-ID: <20000828145206.A65055@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jasonla_@hotmail.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:23:00PM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-08-24 (14:23), Jason La wrote: > Does anyone know if FBSD is working a new packaging system? The current one > (pkg_add, pkg_delete, etc) isn't very powerful or flexible. Can you elucidate a bit more on what bits you consider underpowered or inflexible? The only concern is upgradeability, really. > FBSD supposedly supports rpms, but I have tried to install rpms on a > FBSD 4.0 system, and it required some GNU libs that were missing. It supports RedHat RPMs installed into the Linux compatibility system /compat/linux, which must be prepopulated with Linux libraries (/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base). Yes, we're working on a new packaging system. Join libh@FreeBSD.org for more information. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message