On 9/8/05, Nick Dimiduk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick-
Thanks for the redirection. I'll spam them as well.
Here's what I want: If you are familiar with openpkg, I want a portage version of that rather than an rpm version.
If you aren't familiar with that I want a "prefixed" version of portage (much like how fink is in it's own directory) that will run ontop of other unices (solaris, osx, linux variants).
Here's the thread that contains a GLEP explaining "portage as a secondary package manager".
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27569
Hopefully that makes sense. I hope this doesn't appear to be rude, I just want to make sure people understand what I'm asking for, so that we are all on the same page ;)
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. :)
Nick-
Thanks for the redirection. I'll spam them as well.
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 :)
Here's what I want: If you are familiar with openpkg, I want a portage version of that rather than an rpm version.
If you aren't familiar with that I want a "prefixed" version of portage (much like how fink is in it's own directory) that will run ontop of other unices (solaris, osx, linux variants).
Here's the thread that contains a GLEP explaining "portage as a secondary package manager".
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27569
Hopefully that makes sense. I hope this doesn't appear to be rude, I just want to make sure people understand what I'm asking for, so that we are all on the same page ;)
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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