Re: Installing debian packages on netbsd?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 11:25, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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.)

Is /compat/linux a symlink to /emul/linux? I'm confused about where
the rootfs should be unpacked.


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Ottavio Caruso