Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Gary Kline
According to Brent Fulgham: > > By only gripe about the ports suite came into the glare > > when I upgraded from FreeBSD 2.2.8 to v3.2 recently. > > There a bunch of GNU things that I'd like to install. > > The gnome package(s), for one; and more to the point, > > gIDE. > > >

RE: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Brent Fulgham
> By only gripe about the ports suite came into the glare > when I upgraded from FreeBSD 2.2.8 to v3.2 recently. > There a bunch of GNU things that I'd like to install. > The gnome package(s), for one; and more to the point, > gIDE. > > The ports method screwe

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Gary Kline
According to Brent Fulgham: > > Yes, and when the FreeBSD port of dpkg is ready, the > > Debian packaging tools can be use for everything on > > the DebianBSD distribution. > > > > A lot of work has gone into the FBSD ports suite, and > > it works flawlessly iff you are aware

RE: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Brent Fulgham
> Yes, and when the FreeBSD port of dpkg is ready, the > Debian packaging tools can be use for everything on > the DebianBSD distribution. > > A lot of work has gone into the FBSD ports suite, and > it works flawlessly iff you are aware of a few key points. >

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Gary Kline
According to Hamish Moffatt: > On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:32:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:10:23AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I envisage a /compat/debian tree, which would be like / to linux. > > > Ie /compat/debian/usr/bin, /compat/debian/usr/share/doc etc. >

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Gary Kline
According to Hamish Moffatt: > On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:56:50AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > > As I understood it /compat/linux could be used like the / of a linux > > box. If a linux program requests a file it will get > > /compat/linux/foobar or /foobar in that order. I thinks the > > document

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 01:21:27PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Theoretically, then, if we could hack dpkg to pre-pend /compat/linux or > > something similar to every path it extracts from .deb files, we'd > > be done. > > Yes then we have somethi

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Peter Makholm
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Theoretically, then, if we could hack dpkg to pre-pend /compat/linux or > something similar to every path it extracts from .deb files, we'd > be done. Yes then we have something usefull. -- I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to ev

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:56:50AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > As I understood it /compat/linux could be used like the / of a linux > box. If a linux program requests a file it will get > /compat/linux/foobar or /foobar in that order. I thinks the > documentation stated that this was the behavior

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Peter Makholm
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I envisage a /compat/debian tree, which would be like / to linux. > Ie /compat/debian/usr/bin, /compat/debian/usr/share/doc etc. I played a little with FreeBSD yesterday (can't do that at work), read a litle documentation and compiled a kernel with ext

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:32:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:10:23AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I envisage a /compat/debian tree, which would be like / to linux. > > Ie /compat/debian/usr/bin, /compat/debian/usr/share/doc etc. > > > > However, I don't know if Free

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:14:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Let me answer that with a question: What programs does Linux > have the BSD doesn't? And vice-versa? ((Not drivers, &c.)) Only commercial applications. Linux has a few like realplayer which are often run with FreeBSD's li

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:10:23AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > (3) If we ported Debian's packaging tools to BSD, how would you want this > > integrated with the rest of the environment? Should all Linux binaries go > > in their

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > > > What happened to this list? Seems like the entire > > discussion ended in > > one usec... > > > > gary > > Sorry Gary. I'm here, just busy on other things today. Okay; good to know that everything didn't ab

Re: Alive?

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: > (3) If we ported Debian's packaging tools to BSD, how would you want this > integrated with the rest of the environment? Should all Linux binaries go > in their own directory someplace? Should they go right in alongside the > other