Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:56:47 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-emulation@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: LTS linux for ports - ideas? Message-ID: <4F288DCF.4040606@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20120131194320.Horde.Jd2ac5jmRSRPKDZI2OvnaNA@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20120131194320.Horde.Jd2ac5jmRSRPKDZI2OvnaNA@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On 02/01/12 04:43, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Oops, I forgot to keep emulation in CC... > > ----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht von Alexander Leidinger > <Alexander@Leidinger.net> ----- > Datum: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:10 +0100 > Von: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> > Betreff: Re: LTS linux for ports - ideas? > An: Da Rock <freebsd-emulation@herveybayaustralia.com.au> > > Quoting Da Rock <freebsd-emulation@herveybayaustralia.com.au> (from > Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:43:49 +1000): > >> What is the consensus on the LTS linux distro to update the fedora 10 >> ports? Or at all? > > There is no consensus, as there was no discussion. > > If you want to discuss it here, I put up the following hard requirements: > - one which works with the linuxulator in 8/9 (no inotify, no epoll, > something else?)... no idea which one fits here, so be tested > (make a linux installation, copy the data to a FreeBSD system, > chroot into this directory, and run as much programs as possible) > - one which is known to be supported for a long time > > My personal suggestion is one which is RPM based, to be able to use > the existing linuxulator-ports-framework. Basically this means > probably CentOS, but I do not know another one. :) > > If someone wants to take a debian or whatever based distro, that's OK > too, but in this case the person discards some years of development > work of the existing framework (it's maybe not perfect, but it was > created during a lot of man-weeks) and is forced to re-learn > everything from scratch. He should also discuss design-decissions here > and be prepared for a steep learning curve. > > The one who does the work is in command. I will not object to > something which works and provides a similar seamless (or better) > integration into FreeBSD to what Boris and I did with the current ports. > >> I know Alexander has a page on howto do a linux-base port >> (theoretically)- hence the query... > > It's not only the work for a linux_base port, the infrastructure ports > have to be updated at the same time: > http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/08/29/howto-create-a-new-linux_base-port/ > > http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/09/01/howto-add-linux-infrastructure-ports-for-a-new-linux_base-port/ Sorry, I thought there would be more replies. Looks you are the emulation list Alex. I thought it would be centos, but I thought I'd see what everyone else thought about it. I was just making enquiries for support of a particular piece of software, but they don't support any linux version that we could provide- at least the rpms needed to run it just aren't around. So I noticed someone else wanted centos as well, and mentioned it could be an option if it worked. Just something I'm hoping to have a crack at in the future...
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