Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:49:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: SXren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), bartol@salk.edu, Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux RPM on FreeBSD, anyone doing this? Message-ID: <199812222149.NAA00975@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:45:57 %2B0100." <199812222145.WAA05334@freebsd.dk>
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> 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. More or less what I was doing already; I got hung up on needing about a dozen things installed as dependancies. I also had problems with some of the options only being valid for some operations; I don't recall if --ignoreos is always valid... > > 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 :) Shouldn't be *too* bad; just update the RPMs in the fetch list. Whether it'll _work_, now that's another matter again. 8) > > 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... Ta. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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