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Subject: Re: Use of sysutils/pacman in FreeBSD?
From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
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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 are outdated to complete uselessness.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 because our linuxulator is outdated as well: recent linux binaries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.
>

This is a bit off topic, but would you happen to know if there is a place
we can keep up on the coming linuxulator work?
is there maybe a github repo setup to test a new linuxulator?

> --
>

Sam Fourman Jr.