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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 13:35:02 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, (Jordan K. Hubbard) <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000524133502.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200005240357.WAA10049@noel.cs.rice.edu>

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On 24-May-00 Mohit Aron wrote:
>  Yes, that looks promising. That'll possibly enable one to install rpms 
>  easily on FreeBSD. 

You can try this too..

rpm --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbbath /var/lib/rpm --nodeps
--replacepkgs foo.rpm

I did this to install Linux gtk libs a while ago and it worked (note its stolen
from the linux_base port)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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