Re: Installing debian packages on netbsd?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:

> Incidentally (I haven't tried this myself but I could), I wonder if,
> instead of installing all the related compat packages from pkgsrc, one
> could just untar one of these root filesystems into /emul/linux:
>
> https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/
>
> For example, the Ubuntu one in this particular case. These are meant
> for docker, but I use them in a chroot on my Debian laptop and they
> work alright.  (It anybody wants to try them, the ones named
> "rootfs.tar.xz")

The Linux binary support and the suse compat packages work together but
aren't tightly related.  (Beware that our Linux emulation does not have
every syscall, but it has all the ones that people have added to run the
things they wanted to run.)

What you describe is a very reasonable thing to try and will probably
work.  I encourage you and others to try it and report back.

We have a notion of unpacking a fuller system into /compat/linux, and
adding packages for more things.  If you want to run 3 Linux binaries,
then you need the union of the libs all three need in /compat/linux.

(baseless speculation: If you chroot to try to run a semi-container, you
can probably have multiple separate unpacked trees.)