Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:38:21 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c Message-ID: <378117BD.1A2149BD@scc.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907052208310.3770-100000@gold.amis.net> <199907052017.OAA57498@harmony.village.org>
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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
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