Re: Debian FreeBSD - experiment
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> FreeBSD-3.3 have master.passwd with additional fields befor GECOS field.
> This file have to be compiled to binary form /etc/pwd.db by pwd_db command,
> AFAIR.
Okay. But there shouldn't really be a problem to debianize this stuff.
> Maybe someone would like to hack base-passwd package and add support
> for FreeBSD? :)
I suppose this would be pretty reasonable, yes.
> More interesting is sysvinit package. FreeBSD have different init
> style and haven't got /etc/inittab file.
Yes, I know. We should definitely try to port our Debian init.
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