How to enable Linux binary compatibility using sysinstall

Simon Dick simond at irrelevant.org
Wed Mar 19 15:15:04 GMT 2008


On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:40:19 +0000, "RW" <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com>
said:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:12:01 +0000
> "Simon Dick" <simond at irrelevant.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:14:12 +0000, "Stephen Allen"
> > <sdafreebsduk at rowyerboat.com> said:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > After installing FreeBSD 7.0, I realised I'd forgotten to choose
> > > Linux binary compatibility during the install.  I tried installing
> > > from ports, but it's gone and installed a load of other unwanted
> > > packages aswell now (perl/popt/rpm etc...).
> > > 
> > > So, a few questions really...
> > > 
> > > 1.
> > > Why does the ports install require all these other packages, when
> > > none of these are installed if you remember to select the "Enable
> > > Linux binary compatibility" option during install?
> > 
> > The sysinstall option does install all of them, it just doesn't make
> > it obvious that it's doing so, after all, ...
> 
> Actually it doesn't. The port needs a native tool to open the Fedora
> RPM packages. sysinstall uses the FreeBSD package made from the
> extracted files.

Good point, I hadn't thought about the port/package difference, next
time I'll wait until post-coffee to reply :)
-- 
Simon Dick
simond at irrelevant.org





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