I recall waay back on Mar 15 when Gary Kline wrote: > It's nice to know that some folks are still pounding away > at this... prob'ly in the dead of night and solo. > > Anything Debian is a win; so is the extrordinary stability > of *BSD.
Unfortunately for the areas that I was interested in mainly (unionfs), BSD was not so stable =( which is why I haven't been working on this as much. Work, for whom I was playing with this, dictates that I stick with Linux for now since the other part of BSD we really wanted (jail) doesn't outdo the advantages of sticking with a system we know and love (Debian =). Anyhow, I took a few moments to gather up what I had done. I *believe* these are the right set of sources. Here is the URL: http://www.allusion.net/bard/debian-bsd/ apt*.tar.gz is the modified source tarball for apt, and dpkg*.tar.gz is the modified source tarball for dpkg and dselect. Those ought to configure/compile ok using gmake. Fairly amazing actually on the part of the developers of those packages, just how little had to be changed to get it to compile. binaries.tar.gz is a tarball of the binary installation I did, if you want to play with it before actually getting it to compile (ought to be up within about 5 minutes, should be ~9.7M). It is installed in /usr/local/debian to keep it seperate from the rest of my BSD system, so some symlinks were required from /var (included). As you can see from the package listing in there, I successfully did a dselect Method/Source/Update and used "dpkg -i" on a few binary-all packages (mainly deb development tools). I don't claim to have properly ported it (see especially start-stop-daemon), or even done it prettily.. =) I just wanted to get a proof of concept. It ought to be cleaned up a lot and moved back to its standard install location for everything to be good. Also if you followed the discussion on here earlier, there was a problem with mmap()'ing files in apt. I never did get a good fix, but I discovered by enlarging the buffer size to something silly (so the whole file is loaded at once), it does appear to work around the problems. Enjoy! I sure hope we eventually get a DebianBSD, despite all the license flamage.. =| -- Learn to pause -- or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.
