From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Dec 22 13:46:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27458 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.42.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27280 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA05334; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:45:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199812222145.WAA05334@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Linux RPM on FreeBSD, anyone doing this? In-Reply-To: <199812222135.NAA00866@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 22, 1998 1:35:21 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:45:57 +0100 (CET) Cc: bartol@salk.edu, mike@smith.net.au, Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > Why all the trouble, how about: > > > > rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux /path/to/the/rpm/packages > > > > That works for the Oracle senario.... > > Because, if you'd been following the thread, you'd have discovered that > rpm is called out of the IBM DB2 installer binary. 8) Rename rpm to rpm.org make shellscript rpm that does what I wrote above. > Your observation about needing an RPM database for the installed > components in the linux_lib port is spot-on too; this is going to be a > prerequisite for linux_lib 2.7 I think. I mailed Eric to see if he had > a list of libraries that he normally includes somewhere; failing that I > guess it's just going to be time to sit down with a new RedHat CDROM. Yup, and then one should be able to upgrade etc with all the hassles that the linsux world has in that department :) > One other question - have you tried using the Linux 'rpm' binary? It > segfaults on what seems to be exiting, but I can't see any reason for > it... Hmm, no, I've used the ports one, but I'll look at it... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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