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authorMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-01 11:56:36 +0000
committerMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-01 11:56:36 +0000
commitab9fc1c7b93ab11bf0d6252ebfbbf3cf05b9b54f (patch)
tree97d51ed449db342e26e5b42100b03f87eacdead7 /distrib/notes/packages
parent7616460a4d1701e9b29df19da292df65c266a33d (diff)
More details about running alien binaries under emulation, should you have
no choice.
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diff --git a/distrib/notes/packages b/distrib/notes/packages
index 4139baf1f7d..412b67ee134 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/packages
+++ b/distrib/notes/packages
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: packages,v 1.33 2004/02/27 17:49:14 miod Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: packages,v 1.34 2004/03/01 11:56:35 miod Exp $
As complete as your OpenBSD system is, you may want to add any of several
excellent third party software applications. There are several ways to do
this. You can:
@@ -1226,25 +1226,25 @@ dnl
define({:-PORTS-:},
{:-ifelse(
MACHINE_ARCH,alpha,{:-FreeBSD
- ports or NetBSD package collection-:},
+ ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,amd64,{:-FreeBSD
- ports or NetBSD package collection-:},
+ ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,arm,{:-NetBSD
- package collection-:},
+ pkgsrc-:},
dnl MACHINE_ARCH,hppa,{:-NetBSD
-dnl package collection-:},
+dnl pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,i386,{:-FreeBSD
- ports or NetBSD package collection-:},
+ ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,m68k,{:-NetBSD
- package collection-:},
+ pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,powerpc,{:-NetBSD
- package collection-:},
+ pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,sparc,{:-NetBSD
- package collection-:},
+ pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,sparc64,{:-FreeBSD
- ports or NetBSD package collection-:},
+ ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,vax,{:-NetBSD
- package collection-:})-:})dnl
+ pkgsrc-:})-:})dnl
dnl
dnl If this architecture supports FreeBSD or NetBSD emulation by default,
dnl define text that tells which binary packages you can try to run.
@@ -1254,17 +1254,28 @@ define({:-EMUL-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,alpha,{:-NetBSD-:},
MACHINE_ARCH,i386,{:-FreeBSD-:})-:})dnl
dnl
+dnl Same as above, defining a manual page to check for more compat
+dnl information.
+dnl
+define({:-EMULMAN-:},
+{:-ifelse(
+MACHINE_ARCH,i386,{:-compat_freebsd(8)-:})-:})dnl
+dnl
Installing other applications:
If an OpenBSD package or port does not exist for an application
you're pretty much on your own. The first thing to do is ask
<ports@OpenBSD.org> if anyone is working on a port -- there may
be one in progress.
-
- ifelse(PORTS,,,{:-If no such port exists, you might want to tinker with the PORTS.
+ ifelse(PORTS,,,{:-
+ If no such port exists, you might want to tinker with the PORTS.
-:})dnl
- ifelse(EMUL,,,{:-It is also quite possible that the EMUL binary packages,
- if they exist, will work for you.
+ ifelse(EMUL,,,{:-
+ It is also quite possible that the EMUL binary packages,
+ if they exist, will work for you. Note that you will need to
+ enable EMUL binaries emulation with sysctl(8) and set up a
+ complete emulation environment.ifelse(EMULMAN,,,{:- Refer to the EMULMAN
+ manual page for more information about this.-:})
-:})dnl
If you can't find an existing port try to make your own and