On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:44:46PM -0600, Dan Potter was heard to say: > > There's nothing getting done, so far > > as I know. (I'm waiting on some hardware that I should have had back in > > early December. I don't know much about what anyone else is doing, because > > this list has mostly been discussing politics. :-( ) > > See earlier message, I did some playing around with dpkg and apt on > FreeBSD 4.0, and they seem portable enough. It takes a few important > changes (and the usage of gmake) but it works out ok. The only thing I > haven't figured out yet is how to make mmap() work in apt. It appears to > be giving problems. > > Once those things are worked out, some more tools can be ported using the > same method and people ought to be able to start playing with compiling > Debian packages, and creating Debian packages from the FreeBSD bin > distribution. > > I know there are many more details, but I'm taking the gung-ho see how far > we can get strategy at the moment.
I realize this is at a pretty early stage, but are the modifications you've made available somewhere? I'd like to try playing with this a little.. Daniel -- DROP THE SCYTHE AND TURN AROUND SLOWLY. -- Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
