On Fri, Sep 02, 2005, Mr Green wrote:

> I thought you could use openpkg on most distros (from reading docs) 

That's right despite the point where bootstrap package hooks into the
base system. Basically, the boostrap adds a limited number of users and
groups, registers in the systems crontab and startup scripts. That's is,
just some very basic things.

Unfortunatelly most Linux distributions tend to implement most basic
things most differently. So we need these kind of adjustments in
the bootstap package (called 'openpkg' itself) for every different
implementation.

So I guess, currently adding users and groups and registering in
/etc/openpkg will work under Arch Linux. Altering system crontab and
hooking into startup script mechanism will fail.

So if you can life with the limitations, that cron jobs of OpenPKG
packages and automatic starting of daemons will not work, you can check
out OpenPKG of course. If you provide as with information and/or patches
how to implement the missing functionality we would be happy to add Arch
Linux support to OpenPKG.

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christoph schug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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