To re-direct you one more time, maybe have a look over at the
gentoo-portage-dev list. That's where portage development happens. We
just use it. :)
We are in the process of making gentoo's portage work on osx as a
secondary package manager (as you put it earlier). We ideally use / as
the root. Much of what we've push into portage mainline (as bug
reports) has to do with using POSIX versions of tools rather than the
gnu versions. This has to do with portage code as well as ebuilds
themselves. the gentoo/bsd group also does this with their work. Both
of our projects are focused on getting portage running on non-linux
systems. There was talk of gentoo/open solaris as well.
I don't think I fully understand what you're looking for, but I hope you
find it :)
Cheers,
-Nick Dimiduk
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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