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["Andraž \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

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OK here's the story so far:

Switched to freebsd 6.1 rc1, installed in vmware,
installed what I could find of gnu userland from their
packages. Tried to sub some bsd userlnad with gnu userland
not all of it yet.

Installed sorcery after some modifications.
Cast quite some spells BUT they don't have install logs since
I can't get installwatch to work...

installwatch.c:601: warning: 'mode_t' is promoted to 'int' when passed 
through '...' ; 
installwatch.c:601: warning: (so you should pass 'int' not 'mode_t' to 
'va_arg') ; 
installwatch.c:601: note: if this code is reached, the program will abort

I also tried the latest installwatch from checkinstall but that barfed out so
many errors among them the above one so I guess it's an issue.

Also had to modify the archspecs to use HOST=i386-unknown-freebsd.


NOTES:

Use gnu findutils since that's what sorcery uses... bsd isn't liked.
Use ginstall bsd install lacks features
Switch --group=root|-g root|root:root with --group=wheel|-g root|root:wheel
(There is little consistency to using the various options in sorcery)
tar needs to be called with -f else it tries accessing tape device....
bzcat | tar wasn't liked a lot... tried accessing tape device...

I've got some of basesystem installed but unitl I get installwatch fixed
I don't think this is a possible future. I might try it with open/net bsd
as well though.

Anyone else willing to help with this let me know and I'll setup a ssh 
connection
to the virtual machine and give root access so you can try and get stuff done 
as well.


I'd really like to get this pilot-project done to see if it's even possible.

Seems the biggest problem is installwatch and some other spells that don't
like to play nice. (sed being one of them)

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Andraž "ruskie" Levstik
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