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1.10    ! tv          1: $NetBSD: README.Interix,v 1.9 2004/04/27 14:03:24 tv Exp $
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                      3: Please read the general README file as well.
                      4:
1.8       tv          5: Interix is a POSIX compatible subsystem for the Windows NT kernel,
                      6: providing a Unix-like environment with a tighter kernel integration than
                      7: available with Cygwin.  It is part of the Windows Services for Unix
                      8: package, available for free for any licensed copy of Windows 2000, XP,
                      9: or 2003.  SFU can be downloaded from:
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                     11:     http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/
                     12:
1.8       tv         13: Services for Unix 3.5, current as of this writing, has been tested.  3.0
                     14: or 3.1 may work, but are not officially supported.  (The main difference
                     15: in 3.0/3.1 is lack of pthreads.)
1.6       tv         16:
1.9       tv         17: A prebuilt bootstrap kit and prebuilt binary packages for Interix 3.5 are
                     18: available from the pkgsrc information page:
                     19:
                     20:     http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html
                     21:
                     22: =====
                     23:
1.8       tv         24: At an absolute minimum, the following packages must be installed from
                     25: the Windows Services for Unix 3.5 distribution in order to use pkgsrc:
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                     27:     Utilities -> Base Utilities
                     28:     Interix GNU Components -> (all)
                     29:     Remote Connectivity
                     30:     Interix SDK
                     31:
1.8       tv         32: When using pkgsrc on Interix, it is best NOT to install the Utilities
                     33: subcomponent "UNIX Perl".  That is Perl 5.6 without shared module
                     34: support, installed to /usr/local, and will only cause confusion.
                     35: Instead, install Perl 5.8 from pkgsrc (or from a binary package
                     36: available at the URL above).
                     37:
                     38: The Remote Connectivity subcomponent "Windows Remote Shell Service" does
                     39: not need to be installed, but Remote Connectivity itself should be
                     40: installed in order to have a working inetd.
                     41:
                     42: Finally, during installation you may be asked whether to enable setuid
                     43: behavior for Interix programs, and whether to make pathnames default to
                     44: case-sensitive.  Both options should be enabled.  (If you choose to
                     45: disable setuid, many system programs from pkgsrc may not work.)
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1.8       tv         49: IMPORTANT NOTES
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1.6       tv         51: * The package imanager (either the pkgsrc "su" user, or the user
                     52:   running "pkg_add") must be a member of the local Administrators
                     53:   group.  Such a user must also be used to run the bootstrap.  This is
                     54:   slightly relaxed from the normal pkgsrc requirement of "root".
                     55:
1.7       tv         56: * The package manager should use a umask of 002.  "make install" will
1.6       tv         57:   automatically complain if this is not the case.  This ensures that
                     58:   directories written in /var/db/pkg are Administrators-group writeable.
                     59:
1.8       tv         60: * The popular Interix binary packages from http://www.interopsystems.com/
                     61:   use an older version of pkgsrc's pkg_* tools.  Ideally, these should
                     62:   NOT be used in conjunction with pkgsrc.  If you choose to use them at
                     63:   the same time as the pkgsrc packages, ensure that you use the proper
                     64:   pkg_* tools for each type of binary package.
                     65:
                     66: =====
                     67:
                     68: KNOWN ISSUES
                     69:
1.4       tv         70: * It is not necessary, in general, to have a "root" user on the Windows
                     71:   system; any member of the local Administrators group will suffice.
                     72:   However, some packages currently assume that the user named "root" is
1.6       tv         73:   the privileged user (these will eventually be fixed).  To accommodate
1.4       tv         74:   these, you may create such a user; make sure it is in the local group
                     75:   Administrators.
                     76:
1.10    ! tv         77: And the following two issues mean that binary packages (pkg_add) should be
        !            78: installed by Administrator for the time being:
        !            79:
        !            80: * "pkg_add" creates directories of mode 0755, not 0775, in $PKG_DBDIR.
        !            81:   This will be fixed.
        !            82:
        !            83: * set-gid files in Interix seem to require using Administrator to install
        !            84:   the setgid file.  (I'm working to confirm this.)
        !            85:
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