From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 5 13:38:32 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3848C14D15; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (i427.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.67.148]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29354; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:38:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28088; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:38:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <378117BD.1A2149BD@scc.nl> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:38:21 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Blaz Zupan , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c References: <199907052017.OAA57498@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Warner Losh wrote: > : How can we possibly conclude that just fixing uname(1) will do it? Who > : says that there isn't a binary installation for some linux software that > : doesn't use the uname(1) command and so will possibly break because we > : report FreeBSD as the OS type? > > Theoretically, yes, this could be the case. To date, none have > surfaced. RPM. And the new ports are completely based on RPM. Also, DB2 uses RPM for its install procedure. Yes, you can probably work arounbd using a Linux RPM, but that only results in other problems and disadvantages to be solved and/or worked around. Were does it end. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message