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Hi, |
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As far as I know, this path is envisioned but since I needs some large |
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investments, there is not much to tell about when this is to come. It |
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is in the line of development, however. |
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To give you another 302, you might look around in the gentoo-portage |
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list, because there this idea will be cooked. We OSXers will probably |
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be the first ones to consume (use) it. |
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Maybe this helps a bit |
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m h wrote: |
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> Hello- |
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> I posted in the gentoo-dev mailing list yesterday, but figured I'd post |
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> here since it is somewhat closer related. I'm investigating the |
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> differences between portage and openpkg. For those who don't know about |
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> openpkg, openpkg allows one to install rpms in a sandboxed environment |
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> accross multiple unix platforms (bsd, redhat, debian, gentoo,...). It |
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> consists of a way to bootstrap an environment and a bunch of spec files |
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> used to create rpms specifically tailored for that platform. The idea |
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> being you could run the "same" components across different platforms in |
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> your environment. |
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> It seems that Fink and Portage for OSX are providing similar |
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> functionality on top of OSX. My question is what would be involved in |
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> generalizing the Portage OSX port to unix platforms similar to what |
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> openpkg is doing. An example might be that while I need to run Suse at |
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> work, I could install portage into a sandboxed location and enter that |
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> environment. This would allow me to run newer components, better |
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> integrated, security patched, etc, while still having the corporate |
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> environment if I needed it. |
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> Ideally the benefits for doing this would be to allow many platforms to |
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> take advantage of portage, use the large ebuild tree (openpkg has ~400 |
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> components), as well as use ebuilds that are tested probably a little |
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> bit more than openpkg (I believe the gentoo install base is a least one |
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> or two orders of magnitude larger than openpkg). |
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> Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are appreciated. |
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> thanks |
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> matt |
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Fabian Groffen |
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