From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 10:11:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A101065673 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gid0.org) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015768FC15 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadc10 with SMTP id c10so158623qad.13 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:11:23 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.116.144 with SMTP id m16mr667938qaq.19.1322647882828; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:11:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.81.18 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:11:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:11:22 +0100 Message-ID: From: Olivier Smedts To: Alexander Leidinger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: mueller6727@bellsouth.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:11:24 -0000 2011/11/29 Alexander Leidinger : > Hi, > > you can install the gentoo linux-dist in parallel to the default linux-ba= se. Gentoo will be in /usr/local, not in /compat/linux. As such you have to= manually start programs there via chroot. This means you do not have acces= s to you FreeBSD files like normally, except you do null-mounts into the ge= ntoo area. It also means your experience will not be as "integrated" as wit= h the defaut linux-base (the linux-base port does some effort to integrate = FreeBSD config files and installed resources like fonts). > > Just switching between them, like changing a symlink, is theoretically po= ssible, but the gentoo linux-dist port is not designed for this kind of int= egration. It's a linux-"dist" port, not a linux-"base" port. You can also use sysutils/debootstrap to install Debian somewhere. I use it with ZFS snapshots and clones and I'm really happy with it. To install Linux packages I just chroot and apt-get. It's a less straight-forward setup than with linux-base ports, but if you know both FreeBSD and Debian that's maybe the way to go :) > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > Send via an Android device, please forgive brevity and typographic and sp= elling errors.=A0Thomas Mueller hat geschrieben= :I noticed on http://www.freshports.org/commits.php an update to the Gentoo= Linux distribution. > > I know there are other Linux compatibility ports in the emulators categor= y. > > Is it possible to install more than one Linux compatibility package or ac= tual Linux installation and switch from one to the other? > > I might want to install a Linux compatibility package and still be able t= o run Linux software through an actual Linux installation, separate from th= e FreeBSD Linux compatibility package. > > Or possibly be able to compare one Linux compatibility package to another= . > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Olivier Smedts=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 _ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - against HTML email & vCards=A0 X www: http://www.gid0.org=A0 =A0 - against proprietary attachments / \ =A0 "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : =A0 ceux qui comprennent le binaire, =A0 et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."