I was just wondering if FreeBSD will eventually migrate away from using CentOS libraries for its Linux emulation. The LinuxJails wiki instructs how to set up an Ubuntu chroot for running Linux software, and I have had far more success running Linux software under an Ubuntu chroot, and with far less effort, than I ever had with manually downloading RPMs from a CentOS mirror, installing them, and hoping that it would work only to find all too often that a new enough version of the library didn't exist in CentOS 7. Not to mention that there's no easy way to uninstall a manually installed RPM.
It seems like migrating to use of an Ubuntu chroot and just using apt, or perhaps some FreeBSD frontend for the sake of integration, to handle installing software would not only be far more convenient for end users of FreeBSD but far less of a maintenance burden for the FreeBSD team as well.
It seems like this is the direction that things are headed in already, and the LinuxJails work is just the initial testbed, but I haven't seen any public discussion about what the actual plans for the future are. Has anyone heard anything, or does anyone who's actually involved in this work know anything they can share?
It seems like migrating to use of an Ubuntu chroot and just using apt, or perhaps some FreeBSD frontend for the sake of integration, to handle installing software would not only be far more convenient for end users of FreeBSD but far less of a maintenance burden for the FreeBSD team as well.
It seems like this is the direction that things are headed in already, and the LinuxJails work is just the initial testbed, but I haven't seen any public discussion about what the actual plans for the future are. Has anyone heard anything, or does anyone who's actually involved in this work know anything they can share?