Re: Installing debian packages on netbsd?

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:11:51 -0400
>> Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>>
>>>   after installing the linux compat packages, chroot into /emul/linux
>>>   and then run the dpkg tools.  first you might need to install them
>>>   because the emulation is suse.
>>
>> Anyone knows why pkgsrc uses Suse Linux? Is it something to do with
>> long term support for older versions? If not, I wonder if Debian would
>> be a better choice, as they have far more packages available. 
>
>I think it was basically a good choice a long time ago when it was
>added.  LTS does seem important, basically to match what random linux
>binaries want, and in theory to have security fixes.   Whether it is the
>best choice today I do not know.
>
>If you or someone wanted to create debian or centos compat packages,
>centos, and put them in wip, I suspect it would be helpful to a number
>of people.   We could certainly consider changing to that if it turns
>out to be better.

I have a few debian compat packages in my tree.

I created them to use with NetBSD/arm as SUSE didn't support that
architecture. I didn't get far enough with the kernel side of Linux
emulation for arm to do much with the packages.