From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Dec 22 13:41:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22523 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22494 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from eccles.salk.edu (eccles [198.202.70.120]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10172; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:37:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:37:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol To: Søren Schmidt cc: mike@smith.net.au, Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux RPM on FreeBSD, anyone doing this? In-Reply-To: <199812222127.WAA05225@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA22499 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > 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.... > Cool! Thanks for pointing that out! Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message