Previously Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Before Fulcrum undertakes any serious porting work, I'd like to know if > there have been any other efforts to port the Debian package toolset > to a wider range of *nix variants, other than Linux, BSD and the HURD?
dpkg compiles fine in IRIX, HP-UX, SunOS and Solaris. You might have to patch start-stop-daemon, the current implementation does not handle all OSes but that should be really easy. dselect will compile on any system with a recent ncurses. I know for sure that apt works on Solaris machines as well, I'm not aware of people having used it on any other systems but I see no reason why it should not work. > Should I be talking to anyone in particular? Are there other tools about > that I might not be aware of? You might not be able to use fakeroot to build packages. You will probably need GNU make, GCC, GNu tar and probably a few other GNU tools to build everything. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
