Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:34:01 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble With Linux Compatibility Message-ID: <71745446@bs1.sp34.ru> In-Reply-To: <4919C9BA.3070903@mykitchentable.net> (Drew Tomlinson's message of "Tue\, 11 Nov 2008 10\:06\:50 -0800") References: <49174AF8.50201@mykitchentable.net> <57511736@bb.ipt.ru> <4919C9BA.3070903@mykitchentable.net>
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Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> writes: > Boris Samorodov wrote: >> Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> writes: >>> I am trying to install a linux rpm of Legato Networker Backup Client. >> >> It is not supposed to work (installing via rpm). You may try to do like >> this: >> ----- >> # cd $LINUX_BASE >> # rpm2cpio -q < $directory_with_rpm_package/$rpm_package | cpio -id >> ----- >> Then find any new binary executable files and brandelf(1) them (only >> executables, not libraries). > > Thank you! I think I have it working. Good to know. > Will have to test to be sure > it's working OK. I'm just curious...in two guides, written in 2006, I > found on the net use rpm to install. Did this change recently? Seems that it has changed two years ago when I began to maintain linux ports. ;-) The problem was that rpm used it's own database of installed files/packages. The native FreeBSD database was used as well. It was a nightmare to keep then in sync. One of them should die. Guess which one? ;-) BTW, what about creating patches/followups/etc to those guides you have seen? >> Well, a better way may be to create a port. You'll get at least a clean >> deinstall possibility then. And use send-pr(1). ;-) > > Yes, I tried creating a port once before for a new version of bacula > client. However I could never get it to work. That was a few years > ago. Maybe I need to try again. ;) Good luck. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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