Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 20:41:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux collections (was: Linux devel doesn't work with glibc Message-ID: <199902040441.UAA11466@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 23:11:49 GMT." <19990203181329.AAA7110@giffunip>
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> > > > > > > > - Download and install the current RedHat RPM binaries. > > > > > > I prefer the RPM port for the following reasons: > > > 1. It is easier. > > > > Not notably. > > > > FWIW, all the limitations of the native RPM port you mention are > solvable. *sigh* No, they are not. - We can't put it in /bin. We can't make it safely callable from /bin (no, a shellscript wrapper isn't enough). - We can't guarantee that anything that an install forks off will run in 'linux space' - We can't guarantee that the database will be where Linux programs want it to be. Remember that we aren't the only caller that will be invoking RPM. > I think it's a matter of taste, but I don't agree that we should > carry a complete Linux system in the ports tree: I consider this > bloat. I don't think we need to carry "a complete Linux system"; we do need to carry the libraries, and we need a number of support binaries because there are basic expectations made by some of the applications we want to run that we don't want to support in the native system. > In fact we should symlink the linux shell to our native bash > port. The whole point of having a Linux bash is to be able to run shell scripts in "linux space". The same necessity underpins the need to have a native Linux RPM. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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