From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 12 11:41:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D1BB4D for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:41:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from smtp.timeweb.ru (smtp.timeweb.ru [92.53.116.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BE81ED2 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [213.148.20.85] (helo=hive.panopticon) by smtp.timeweb.ru with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UxbU2-00073o-EU; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:25:54 +0400 Received: from hades.panopticon (hades.panopticon [192.168.0.32]) by hive.panopticon (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CD712D; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:25:53 +0400 (MSK) Received: by hades.panopticon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB1603FC; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:25:53 +0400 (MSK) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:25:53 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Use of sysutils/pacman in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20130712112553.GF414@hades.panopticon> References: <340755.10068.bm@smtp102.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <340755.10068.bm@smtp102.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:41:05 -0000 * Thomas Mueller (mueller6724@bellsouth.net) wrote: > I recognize pacman as a package manager for Arch Linux along with > Arch Build System, but how would pacman be used in FreeBSD? > > Binary-only package manager or build from source for FreeBSD, or Well, there's ArchBSD project (http://archbsd.net/), and pacman may be used to install packages from it (to quickly set up a jail, for example, as FreeBSD world is just another package there). However, the original reason I've ported it was to be able to install a genuine linux distribution into a chroot, as linux_base* from ports are outdated to complete uselessness. Unfortunately, that didn't work because our linuxulator is outdated as well: recent linux binaries either demand higher kernel version or (if compat.linux.osrelease is bumped) segfault. If that issue is resolved (I've heard there's some work on linuxulator ongoing), pacman will be ready for installing ArchLinux into jail/chroot. > would it be used to add packages to an Arch Linux installation while > running from FreeBSD? That too, but it's currently impossible, as it needs to run linux binaries in the chroot, while they doesn't really run. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru