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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 15:06:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005241505580.99498-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000524133502.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 
> 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

Or:

/compat/linux/bin/bash
rpm ....

Running Linux-based installers directly in the FreeBSD environment can
Cause Problems(tm), particularly if they're shells scripts that make
assumptions.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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