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Re: Alive?

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 since FreeBSD 2.2.

Excellent -- that's exactly what I'd hoped it would do.
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.


Hamish
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