Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:44:46PM -0600, Dan Potter was heard to say:
> > There's nothing getting done, so far
> > as I know. (I'm waiting on some hardware that I should have had back in
> > early December. I don't know much about what anyone else is doing, because
> > this list has mostly been discussing politics. :-( )
>
> See earlier message, I did some playing around with dpkg and apt on
> FreeBSD 4.0, and they seem portable enough. It takes a few important
> changes (and the usage of gmake) but it works out ok. The only thing I
> haven't figured out yet is how to make mmap() work in apt. It appears to
> be giving problems.
>
> Once those things are worked out, some more tools can be ported using the
> same method and people ought to be able to start playing with compiling
> Debian packages, and creating Debian packages from the FreeBSD bin
> distribution.
>
> I know there are many more details, but I'm taking the gung-ho see how far
> we can get strategy at the moment.
I realize this is at a pretty early stage, but are the modifications you've
made available somewhere? I'd like to try playing with this a little..
Daniel
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