Icky on the html email :P On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:45:16PM -0700, m h wrote: > Hello- > I'm investigating the similarities between portage and openpkg. More > specifically I was wondering if it is possible to take portage and > install in on top of an existing linux installation in its own sandbox
s/sandbox/prefix/ This is what fink does, and what gentoo-osx is moving towards. > (similar to what openpkg does). I've done some googling and found the > documentation about the gentoo sandbox > ([1]http://bugday.gentoo.org/sandbox.html), but this seems to be a > tool for checking that ebuilds behave correctly. Moreso protection, then ensuring they behave correctly; if they do something they shouldn't they get blocked from what they're attempting. It's an active tool, rather then a 'check' of the ebuild (that and it's limited to linux, no *bsd implementations). Akin to depriving, although depriving is more effective- one can sidestep the sandbox, can't sidestep being de-prived aside from priv escalation. > I've read through > the developer documentation and didn't find anything there. Google > hasn't necessarily been very useful either.... > So, is it possible to sandbox a portage installation on top of say a > debian or fedora install? If so, can anyone point me in the right > direction? With current ebuilds, nope. There's no global prefix offset in the code for it (root is merge offset, not runtime prefix offset). > Do any of the devs out here have experience with openpkg? Pretty much an extension of rpm spec's, afaik. Beyond that? Heh, nope :) ~harring
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