From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Sep 27 12:52:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB2C37B42C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8RJrkA05742; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009271953.e8RJrkA05742@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: freebsd-emulation@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing additional Linux shared objects (was: Re: xview) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:43:20 +0200." <20000927214320.A26312@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:53:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi! > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:10:22PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: > > > and fail anyway. For xview I made temporary versions of these dirs > > and files (and no, you cannot symlink them because the --root flags > > does a chroot). It's not nice, so if anyone knows a BETTER way to > > do this, I'm interested. But xview works. > > Uhm, am I the only one who would consider rpm2cpio? Yes. The whole point behind using rpm is so that other applications that depend on the rpm database being accurate have one to work with. (eg. installing other stuff) It *should* be possible to install a Linux app using the Linux rpm binary (this is how most of the linux_lib stuff should be installed, and AFAIK it is...) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message