An important hint for those of you who want to run OpenPKG under Mac OS X 10.6 (in addition or instead of the similar and also great MacPorts). You can use OpenPKG mostly out-of-the-box except for one particular issue: you need the "openpkg-darwin" package to replace the plain GNU binutils and GNU gcc packages (as those two do not work out-of-the-box under Mac OS X). The procedure to deploy an OpenPKG instance is:
| # initial deployment | $ wget http://openpkg.org/go/download/openpkg.src.sh | $ sh openpkg.src.sh --prefix=/openpkg --tag=openpkg \ | --user=openpkg --group=openpkg | $ sh openpkg-*-*.*-openpkg.sh | $ /openpkg/bin/openpkg build openpkg-darwin | sh | $ /openpkg/bin/openpkg build <whatever> | sh | | # regular upgrade | $ /openpkg/bin/openpkg build -U -a -H openpkg-darwin | sh The trick is to deploy the "openpkg-darwin" package (which will virtually Provide "binutils" and "gcc" and create symlinks to the system tools) and the "-H" option on upgrading. That's it. Everything else should just work as expected. At least I'm using OpenPKG this way on my Mac OS X 10.6.3 system now... Ralf S. Engelschall r...@engelschall.com www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenPKG http://openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
