Is anybody already working on openpkg for OS X or SCO OpenServer? I'm a newbie with openpkg having discovered it in the SysAdmin article recently. I've been using RPM extensively for years now, including on SCO OpenServer, freebsd, and OS X using RPM slightly hacked to include some of the useful macros and perl scripts from the Caldera version of RPM.
So far after a couple of days of experimentation it looks like a great solution for problems that have plagued us for years dealing with interaction between our systems and the vendor's. Fixing perl modules alone will make that worthwhile (not so much now since the latest perl now includes the patches I submitted over a year ago to ExtUtils/Install.pm making relative path installations of CPAN modules easy :-). I've done some minimal hacking on openpkg-1.1 release to get it working on older versions of Linux, in particular Caldera OpenLinux 1.3. We have a fair number of installed systems that aren't practical to upgrade now, and I would really like to be able to get around some of the problems with things like old versions of the Berkeley database routines without destroying the systems. Is there any documentation on porting openpkg to other non-standard systems? So far, I haven't found much in the docs on the web site. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.'' -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993 ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
