Re: The project
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:04:30PM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > Well, perhaps we can help to make it work. What doesn't work?
>
> Some of the syscalls are unimplemented. 'sysinfo', for example (which is
> used by dpkg). Perhaps it would be better to improve the Linux emulation,
> so that the rest of the FreeBSD community would benefit from it too. I'm a
> little unsure of this, but will gladly help whenever a decision is made.
Admittedly I've never done any kernel hacking, but it might be interesting
to try it :-)
> Yeah, that's one thing. The fact that the base system doesn't consist of
> packages is also a really annoying thing. Simply put, it's too much like
> Slackware and too little like Debian for my taste.
That's an excellent point -- I'd forgotten about that. How are upgrades of
the base system handled? From memory the installer has a special upgrade
option. That's a bit ugly -- like you point out, Debian handles the base
system just like everything else.
I find the whole packages-in-/usr/local thing a bit odd, but I suspect
that FreeBSD doesn't subscribe to the FHS so it's probably just a difference
of opinion.
Hamish
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