On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 07:18:52PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Gary D. Kline wrote:
> >
> > > Mmm, almost biting my tongue since I figured this project
> > > was door-nail dead. Yes, some of us on the FreeBSD side
> > > have looked at dpkg; it may well already have been done.
> > >
> > > Some months ago I got around 35% finished in porting glibc
> > > to FreeBSD, but after several evenings of hacking, this
> > > list seemed to die. So I stopped.
> >
> > Is it necessary to port glibc to FreeBSD? Almost all applications
> > are ported to native libraries.
>
> If we agreed Debian/BSD could be native libraries based, what
> the next step should be?
>
> How to integrate current system of BSD ports with Debian's sources?
> I think we could adaptate a base system to FHS (or Debian Policy)
> and prepare /binary-i386-bsd/base/ directory.
>
> AFAIK GRUB supports FreeBSD so it couldn't be hard.
>
You're getting into the level of planning that are beyond
me right now. I'm busy with a Light-Sound X Window System
app begun in 1996 and set to debut sometime *soon*,
whatever soon is. Right now, my app works only under BSD.
Linux is the next step and I'm hoping to install Debian on
a networked system to do the port. So, the closer we can
get Linux and BSD, at least outside the kernel, what a win!
BSD uses its ports system to install the source code and
build natively; while Linux seems to install the binaries
and docs only. Why not offer the user both?
gary
>
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