<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Dimiduk</b> <<a href="mailto:ndimiduk@g.o">ndimiduk@g.o</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To re-direct you one more time, maybe have a look over at the<br>gentoo-portage-dev list. That's where portage development happens. We<br>just use it. :)</blockquote><div><br>
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Nick-<br>
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Thanks for the redirection. I'll spam them as well. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We are in the process of making gentoo's portage work on osx as a<br>secondary package manager (as you put it earlier). We ideally use / as
<br>the root. Much of what we've push into portage mainline (as bug<br>reports) has to do with using POSIX versions of tools rather than the<br>gnu versions. This has to do with portage code as well as ebuilds<br>themselves. the gentoo/bsd group also does this with their work. Both
<br>of our projects are focused on getting portage running on non-linux<br>systems. There was talk of gentoo/open solaris as well.<br><br>I don't think I fully understand what you're looking for, but I hope you<br>find it :)
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Here's what I want: If you are familiar with openpkg, I want a portage version of that rather than an rpm version.<br>
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).<br>
Here's the thread that contains a GLEP explaining "portage as a secondary package manager".<br>
<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27569">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27569</a></div><br>
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 ;)<br>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Cheers,<br>-Nick Dimiduk<br><br>m h wrote:<br>> Hello-<br>><br>> I posted in the gentoo-dev mailing list yesterday, but figured I'd post
<br>> here since it is somewhat closer related. I'm investigating the<br>> differences between portage and openpkg. For those who don't know about<br>> openpkg, openpkg allows one to install rpms in a sandboxed environment
<br>> accross multiple unix platforms (bsd, redhat, debian, gentoo,...). It<br>> consists of a way to bootstrap an environment and a bunch of spec files<br>> used to create rpms specifically tailored for that platform. The idea
<br>> being you could run the "same" components across different platforms in<br>> your environment.<br>><br>> It seems that Fink and Portage for OSX are providing similar<br>> functionality on top of OSX. My question is what would be involved in
<br>> generalizing the Portage OSX port to unix platforms similar to what<br>> openpkg is doing. An example might be that while I need to run Suse at<br>> work, I could install portage into a sandboxed location and enter that
<br>> environment. This would allow me to run newer components, better<br>> integrated, security patched, etc, while still having the corporate<br>> environment if I needed it.<br>><br>> Ideally the benefits for doing this would be to allow many platforms to
<br>> take advantage of portage, use the large ebuild tree (openpkg has ~400<br>> components), as well as use ebuilds that are tested probably a little<br>> bit more than openpkg (I believe the gentoo install base is a least one
<br>> or two orders of magnitude larger than openpkg).<br>><br>> Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are appreciated.<br>><br>> thanks<br>><br>> matt<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-osx@g.o">
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