From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 20:57:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE3937B91B for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aron@cs.rice.edu) Received: from noel.cs.rice.edu (noel.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.136]) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA12116; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:57:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Received: (from aron@localhost) by noel.cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA10049; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:57:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200005240357.WAA10049@noel.cs.rice.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:57:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <24142.959140502@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 23, 2000 08:55:02 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Perhaps we should go just a bit further with that approach and make > things _write_ into that hierarchy first as well, e.g. if you run > /compat/linux/bin/bash and then install something with rpm, it will > install (as far as it's concerned) into /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc. but > really be chrooted into the /compat/linux hierarchy and only affect > things there. > Yes, that looks promising. That'll possibly enable one to install rpms easily on FreeBSD. - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message