Greg Troxel <[email protected]> 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.
