Re: [gentoo-osx] porting maxos port to posix (ala openpkg)

[m h]

On 9/8/05, Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk@g.o> wrote:
>
> 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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