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From: Taylor Christopher P <ct@××××××××××.edu>
To: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
Cc: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Ported to OS X
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:42:39
Message-Id: Pine.GSO.4.51.0306031741380.26771@yoda.cs.clemson.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Ported to OS X by Pieter Van den Abeele
1 when you say "open bug" whatcha mean? oh, and i need people to help me
2 figure out somethings with the source... i remember vlad from my early
3 gentoo-ppc days. i'll need to email them both...
4
5 thanks!
6
7 Christopher Paul Taylor, Clemson University Computer Science Dept.
8
9 On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
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11 > We have an open bug on it. afaik sethbc and vladimir were working on this.
12 > You might get in contact with them. Gentoo PPC fully supports the idea of
13 > bringing portage to OS X :-) great job
14 >
15 > Pieter
16 >
17 > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Daniel Robbins wrote:
18 >
19 > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:02:59PM -0400, Taylor Christopher P wrote:
20 > > > And if anyone else is doing something like this with some success - I'd
21 > > > like some help or just a note so that I know that I'm not the only one
22 > > > who's not a fan of Fink or the gnu-darwin ports projects [they're
23 > > > packages are too old and i don't really like their systems, I love
24 > > > portage on my desktop machine and i think having it on darwin/os x would
25 > > > be very cool].
26 > >
27 > > Me too, in fact reading about your desire to get Portage running on OS X
28 > > almost got me excited enough to run out and buy a Mac (I don't have one
29 > > currently.) But since I don't have the funds available for that... :/
30 > >
31 > > One thing you could do is see if you could set up an OS X machine and give
32 > > me root access and then I can see what I can do to get Portage working.
33 > >
34 > > I'm willing to make a decent investment of time for this, because the sooner
35 > > we get Portage running on OS X, the sooner people can start making ebuilds
36 > > for it. Just needs a little push to get off the ground.
37 > >
38 > > Best Regards,
39 > >
40 > > --
41 > > Daniel Robbins
42 > > Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux
43 > > http://www.gentoo.org
44 > >
45 >
46 >
47 > --
48 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
49 >
50 >
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Ported to OS X Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Ported to OS X Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>