Re: dpkg on other unix

1998-12-17 Thread Mark W. Eichin
indeed, over a year ago there were reports that people had gotten (with some patching) the .tar release of dpkg built on solaris. I'm actually more interested in something like debian-netbsd-sparc, or even debian-netbsd-sun3 :-) but I haven't had time to go down that path...

Re: dpkg on other unix

1998-12-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Ben Collins wrote: > How much interest is there in having some 'ports' of debian that are only > meant to be overlays to other OS's such as Solaris? I think Solaris would > be the only one I am interested in. debian-solaris-sparc (modelled after debian-hurd-i386) Sounds lik

Re: dpkg on other unix

1998-12-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 07:42:28AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > How much interest is there in having some 'ports' of debian that are only > meant to be overlays to other OS's such as Solaris? I think Solaris would > be the only one I am interested in. How do update-rc.d, start-stop-daemon, update-

Re: dpkg on other unix

1998-12-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 10:55:50AM +0100, loic wrote: > > Debian user at home, I would like to install debian package manager on a > solaris system at work. > Would someone has a few advices about that? Actually I have built, and am using dpkg/dselect on Solaris as part of a project to replace ou

dpkg on other unix

1998-12-10 Thread loic
Hello, Debian user at home, I would like to install debian package manager on a solaris system at work. Would someone has a few advices about that? - has a dpkg ever been built for other unix than Debian Linux ? - does a special version specially tuned for Solaris exist ? If not: knowing that it