Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:44:28 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 219912] emulators/linux_base-c6: lacks a package manager Message-ID: <bug-219912-4077-BM1M4N7nJO@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-219912-4077@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-219912-4077@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219912 --- Comment #3 from Johannes Jost Meixner <xmj@FreeBSD.org> --- So, currently the way to install stuff into /compat/linux is using the readily available linux-c6- / linux-c7- modules. They're handled by pkg and libarchive: We take the rpm, extract it, install things to [port]/work/stage/compat/linux, hash files, package it, ship it as .txz. Now the obvious problem with the status quo is that at no point does it involve yum, so any yum database would have *no idea* which base packages are installed. So if we shipped yum with linux_base-[c6/c7/whatever] this'd require: 1. integration of yum and pkg to a degree that doesn't exist nor is currently planned on the pkg side [afair] 2. a rework of the current linux infrastructure to use pkg-yum glue instead of libarchive. That aside, some documentation can be found in the handbook: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html#linuxemu-synopsis And we do have metapackages "linux-c6" / "linux-c7" that will pull in any possible linux package that is available, and (most likely) contains what you're looking for. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.help
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