Re: assimilating OpenBSD
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> Wartan Hachaturow writes:
> > When I've been making debhelper port, I've changed calls of "find" and
> > "xargs" to "gfind" and "gxargs", but we should really think about it.
> ^^^^^ ^^^^^
>
> I think you've got it backwards. This is about `debian-bsd', not
> `bsd-debian'.
So what parts of the BSD be saved? Just the kernel? The (ufs) filesystem?
Then what about utilities that may be specific to the kernel (like sysctl)
or filesystem (like chattr)?
> In general, the GNU tools are upwards compatible with the BSD
> ones.
I do agree that they are very similar, but not always. For example: "ls
-TW" or find's "flags" expression.
> IMO, this is the major job at hand with debian-bsd. It's not the
> existing debian packages that need to be ported, they should
> essentially work as is. This is approach that Marcus Brinkmann
> is taking with debian-hurd.
Good point.
Jeremy C. Reed
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