Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 24-May-00 Mohit Aron wrote:
>  Yes, that looks promising. That'll possibly enable one to install rpms 
>  easily on FreeBSD. 

You can try this too..

rpm --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbbath /var/lib/rpm --nodeps
--replacepkgs foo.rpm

I did this to install Linux gtk libs a while ago and it worked (note its stolen
from the linux_base port)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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