Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:27:41 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux RPM on FreeBSD, anyone doing this? Message-ID: <199812222127.WAA05225@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981222091412.96278I-100000@eccles.salk.edu> from Tom Bartol at "Dec 22, 1998 9:16:34 am"
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It seems Tom Bartol wrote: > > > > What I effectively need is rpm running in the linux context, ie. > > managing the contents of /compat/linux. I think it will actually work > > (it'd be nice to fix the secfault-on-exit problem of course), I just > > have to deal with all the prereqs. > > > > How about running rpm in a chroot'd environment rooted at /compat/linux > and adding a the /var tree under /compat/linux? Why all the trouble, how about: rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux /path/to/the/rpm/packages That works for the Oracle senario.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Core Team member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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