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From: m h <sesquile@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:58:29
Message-Id: e36b84ee050908125620cf021e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage by m h
1 Browsing around on the osx list led me back to the archives of this list
2 (may) for the "new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager"
3 novel. Is this effort going anywhere? I could probably devote as much as a
4 week to creating a proof of concept (don't know if that will be enough
5 time), but would like to collaborate with others interested in this. I'm not
6 very familiar with the inner workings of portage (just a happy gentoo user
7 since 2002), but I am comfortable with bash and python and have read the
8 developers documentation.
9
10 Thoughts, comments?
11
12 On 9/8/05, m h <sesquile@×××××.com> wrote:
13 >
14 > Thanks for the response, I guess I'll post to the osx mailing list, but
15 > really my issue isn't about osx per se, but taking the osx portage port and
16 > making it run on any posix system (solaris, osx, flavors of linux etc) in a
17 > sandboxed environment.
18 >
19 > > I've read through
20 > > > the developer documentation and didn't find anything there. Google
21 > > > hasn't necessarily been very useful either....
22 > > > So, is it possible to sandbox a portage installation on top of say a
23 > > > debian or fedora install? If so, can anyone point me in the right
24 > > > direction?
25 > >
26 > > With current ebuilds, nope. There's no global prefix offset in the
27 > > code for it (root is merge offset, not runtime prefix offset).
28 > >
29 >
30 > The osx port runs with the same ebuilds as the main portage tree right?
31 >
32 > > Do any of the devs out here have experience with openpkg?
33 > >
34 > > Pretty much an extension of rpm spec's, afaik.
35 > > Beyond that? Heh, nope :)
36 >
37 >
38 > The basic idea is you bootstrap an environment on an existing system, and
39 > then build rpm's on top of that. It would be nice to take advantage of
40 > Gentoo's larger component tree (openpkg has ~400 items) as well as the
41 > larger gentoo community.
42 >
43 >
44 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>