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Browsing around on the osx list led me back to the archives of this list |
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(may) for the "new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager" |
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novel. Is this effort going anywhere? I could probably devote as much as a |
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week to creating a proof of concept (don't know if that will be enough |
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time), but would like to collaborate with others interested in this. I'm not |
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very familiar with the inner workings of portage (just a happy gentoo user |
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since 2002), but I am comfortable with bash and python and have read the |
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developers documentation. |
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Thoughts, comments? |
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On 9/8/05, m h <sesquile@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thanks for the response, I guess I'll post to the osx mailing list, but |
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> really my issue isn't about osx per se, but taking the osx portage port and |
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> making it run on any posix system (solaris, osx, flavors of linux etc) in a |
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> sandboxed environment. |
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> > I've read through |
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> > > the developer documentation and didn't find anything there. Google |
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> > > hasn't necessarily been very useful either.... |
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> > > So, is it possible to sandbox a portage installation on top of say a |
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> > > debian or fedora install? If so, can anyone point me in the right |
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> > > direction? |
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> > With current ebuilds, nope. There's no global prefix offset in the |
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> > code for it (root is merge offset, not runtime prefix offset). |
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> The osx port runs with the same ebuilds as the main portage tree right? |
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> > Do any of the devs out here have experience with openpkg? |
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> > Pretty much an extension of rpm spec's, afaik. |
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> > Beyond that? Heh, nope :) |
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> The basic idea is you bootstrap an environment on an existing system, and |
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> then build rpm's on top of that. It would be nice to take advantage of |
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> Gentoo's larger component tree (openpkg has ~400 items) as well as the |
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> larger gentoo community. |
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