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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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