The following reply was made to PR pkg/34817; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
Subject: Re: pkg/34817: [patch] emulators/suse100_base does not install on
 FreeBSD 6.1
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:41:09 +0200

 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:35:04 +0000 (UTC)
 Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/34817; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
 > To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/34817: [patch] emulators/suse100_base does not
 > install on FreeBSD 6.1 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:34:08 +0200
 > 
 >  > It does not address the potential problems of other packages
 >  > actually needing /dev to be properly set up.
 >  
 >  To further clarify: I realize this is suboptimal, but the "correct"
 > procedure as far as I can tell, is to set up the system such that
 > devfs is mounted on that particular location on boot, aswell as mount
 > it on package install. 
 >  The FreeBSD equivalent of this package just informs the user of the
 > potential need to setup /dev, but does not attempt to do so. Even if
 > there are packages in pkgsrc that require this, it feels a bit
 > aggressive for the package to actually automate it, barring some
 > pkgsrc-wide policy for how to handle this. 
 >  Opinions?
 
 I remember I did something for FreeBSD and pkgsrc years ago, here
 it is:
 
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2003/09/12/0001.html
 
 I don't see any problem with your patch, but I don't know where did you
 use brandelf. You'll have to run it on every linux binary to make it
 work.