From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 10:16:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B74A337B73E for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:16:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 8055 invoked by uid 211); 20 Apr 2000 17:16:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:46:01 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Doug Poland Cc: ListServer FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Linux devtools... HELP! Message-ID: <20000420224601.A7923@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dpoland@execpc.com on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 12:07:53PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Everything would probably get installed in subdirectories of /compat/linux . It wouldn't overwrite your system stuff. Doug Poland said on Apr 20, 2000 at 12:07:53: > Gulp... > > I just installed the package linux_devel-0.2. I looked at the > pkg/PLIST and saw hundreds of binaries that look like system > files already installed. > > Did I just screw myself? Can I run pkg_delete? What did I > do? The package description says, > > "This is a binary port of the Linux development environment. > It unpacks unpacks actual Linux binaries which run under > the binary emulation." > > Which is incredibly vague if this package replaced critical > system files. > > -- > Doug Poland > dpoland@execpc.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message