patch for DragonFly Handbook
Chuck Tuffli
ctuffli at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 14:48:16 PST 2006
Here is a quick edit for the Linux emulation page of the handbook
(/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml). Note, I didn't try to
build this, so there might be issues ...
---chuck
--- chapter-orig.sgml Fri Jan 20 09:37:54 2006
+++ chapter.sgml Fri Jan 20 14:36:15 2006
@@ -151,21 +151,22 @@
</indexterm>
<para>This can be done one of two ways, either by using the
- <link linkend="linuxemu-libs-port">linux_base</link> port, or
+ <link linkend="linuxemu-suse-pkgsrc">suse</link> package, or
by installing them <link
linkend="linuxemu-libs-manually">manually</link>.</para>
- <sect3 id="linuxemu-libs-port">
- <title>Installing Using the linux_base Port</title>
- <indexterm><primary>ports collection</primary></indexterm>
+ <sect3 id="linuxemu-suse-pkgsrc">
+ <title>Installing Using suse Package</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>pkgsrc</primary></indexterm>
<para>This is by far the easiest method to use when installing the
- runtime libraries. It is just like installing any other port
- from the <ulink type="html"
url="file://localhost/usr/ports/">ports collection</ulink>.
+ runtime libraries. It is just like installing any other package
+ from the <ulink type="html"
url="file://localhost/usr/pkgsrc/">pkgsrc collection</ulink>.
Simply do the following:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd
/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>make install distclean</userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/suse9</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>make install distclean</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>ln -s /usr/pkg/emul /compat</userinput></screen>
<para>You should now have working Linux binary compatibility.
Some programs may complain about incorrect minor versions of the
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@
a problem.</para>
<note><para>There may be multiple versions of the <filename
- role="package">emulators/linux_base</filename> port available,
+ role="package">meta-pkgs/suse</filename> port available,
corresponding to different versions of various Linux distributions.
You should install the port most closely resembling the
requirements of the Linux applications you would like to
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