I finally made a new tarball for Debian GNU/FreeBSD. You can find it at http://people.debian.org/~utsl/freebsd-i386/base-20020415.tar.bz2 This is based on FreeBSD -STABLE, so you will need to have it installed.
Apt is working. You'll want to put the following line into your sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~utsl/freebsd-i386/debian unstable main Diffs against debian source packages can be found at http://people.debian.org/~utsl/freebsd-i386/patches Source packages specific to Debian *BSD can be found under http://people.debian.org/~utsl/freebsd-i386/native For information about the current status of freebsd-i386, see the status document here: http://people.debian.org/~utsl/freebsd-i386/status.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: * libshadow - There is a working libshadow now. Programs that update /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow must call spsync(), in order to update /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db. /etc/master.passwd is no longer used except as part of the update process. You can manually force a rebuild of the db files with mkmasterpw. * shadow/pam - shadow and pam are now linked against libshadow, and should work as expected, including password aging. Haven't really tested pam much yet, but shadow definitely is working. * I'm not sure /dev is in working order in the tarball. Some of the device numbers don't look right. I recommend running MAKEDEV all before use. I think cpio is supposed to get the device numbers right, so I may try switching over to that. * The source diff for dpkg isn't there yet. The source tree is a mess. I will make a diff as soon as I figure out which directory I built it from... Hopefully tomorrow morning. * You need ~600M of free space to rebuild the freebsd source package. * I don't have everything in the apt archive yet. This is because I'm trying to sort out all the packages that require patches. Packages that don't require patches will have a dsc file in freebsd-i386/clean. (.dsc is a small file, and helps me track which version worked.)
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