Am Montag, 31. März 2003 22:53 schrieb ext Spider:
> otherways, have you looked at OpenPKG?? That might also be something
> to look at, it was promising when I switched to Gentoo at least ;-)
I also like the idea of having a source based equivalent to OpenPKG, which
could be used on any Unix platform. Let's call it OpenPortage :-). I
thought about this a few days ago and I think there are some things to
consider:
By now, portage is bound to linux, so the different architectures used in
the ebuild are named by the processor (-family) they run on. It would have
been better to use the well-known processor-vendor-os triplet.
On Gentoo, portage is used to build the entire system from scratch, but if
you'd use it on solaris, you allready have a base system. So there have to
be dependancy (and other) exceptions in the ebuilds for other OSes than
Gentoo.
Installation directories are currently not configurable in portage, they're
hardcoded in the ebuilds :-(
What about init scripts? You may have to provide them per OS (don't know how
this is solved in OpenPKG).
Just my EUR 0.02...
Dirk
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