Hi,
As far as I know, this path is envisioned but since I needs some large
investments, there is not much to tell about when this is to come. It
is in the line of development, however.
To give you another 302, you might look around in the gentoo-portage
list, because there this idea will be cooked. We OSXers will probably
be the first ones to consume (use) it.
Maybe this helps a bit
m h wrote:
Hello-
I posted in the gentoo-dev mailing list yesterday, but figured I'd post
here since it is somewhat closer related. I'm investigating the
differences between portage and openpkg. For those who don't know about
openpkg, openpkg allows one to install rpms in a sandboxed environment
accross multiple unix platforms (bsd, redhat, debian, gentoo,...). It
consists of a way to bootstrap an environment and a bunch of spec files
used to create rpms specifically tailored for that platform. The idea
being you could run the "same" components across different platforms in
your environment.
It seems that Fink and Portage for OSX are providing similar
functionality on top of OSX. My question is what would be involved in
generalizing the Portage OSX port to unix platforms similar to what
openpkg is doing. An example might be that while I need to run Suse at
work, I could install portage into a sandboxed location and enter that
environment. This would allow me to run newer components, better
integrated, security patched, etc, while still having the corporate
environment if I needed it.
Ideally the benefits for doing this would be to allow many platforms to
take advantage of portage, use the large ebuild tree (openpkg has ~400
components), as well as use ebuilds that are tested probably a little
bit more than openpkg (I believe the gentoo install base is a least one
or two orders of magnitude larger than openpkg).
Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are appreciated.
thanks
matt
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