Re: Alive?

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

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 binaries?

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 FreeBSD will let us do this. Although we could
easily move /usr/bin to /compat/debian/usr/bin, this would not work for
/usr/lib and /usr/share, whose paths are probably hardcoded into binaries.
Ideally, the kernel would search /compat/debian for the stuff first
(or /compat/linux). I don't know if it does, though -- /compat/linux might
be intended only for system libraries (libc, libm, etc) and not for
binaries.


Hamish
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