Has anyone looked at the layout of Dawin/Mac OSX, they already have perl and apache on the server version, Installing would be via apple packaging which looks at first glance to be resonable, the only big problem is they currently use "sendmail" .
The against would be a different kernel ( BSD ) to the intel version. Regards Stewart Evans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert van den Aker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <c> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCE: SME 5.1.2 for Alpha > Porting to PowerPC or Sparc would be considerably more difficult, I > imagine. While SME doesn't depend too much on x86 (and where it does, > can easily be modified), it _is_ very much RedHat-dependent. Porting > to Alpha was relatively easy because I could start from the same base > (RedHat 7.1), with binaries from the same sources as x86 RedHat. Of > course I still had to beat some other sources into submission before > they would behave on Alpha, but that's all in the game. Porting to > Sparc would be tantamount to single-handedly reviving the RedHat > Sparc port: I wouldn't recommend it. The situation on the PPC end of > things may be slightly more hopeful, depending on how far Linux/PPC > have strayed from the RedHat path since the Linux/PPC Developers > Release, which was a direct port from RedHat 6.2. But I can imagine > that there would be considerable hurdles on PPC as well, not least > the installer to begin with. > A propos the road leading to the Alpha port: "use the source". All > the source RPMS that I manhandled for this port are included in the > iso. Any changes I made were made through patches to the original > sources, or otherwise clearly commented and traceable. > > Regards, > Robert > > >Jan van Haarst wrote: > >> > >> On 4 Jun 2002 at 21:08, Robert van den Aker wrote: > >> > >> > An unofficial port of SME 5.1.2 to the Alpha (aka DEC Alpha, Compaq > >> > Alpha, AXP) architecture is available now in my contrib area (thanks > >> > to Mitel for hosting it!). Please refer to the following webpage for > >> > further details (also linked from the 'Contributed HOWTO' page): > >> > http://www.robert2.dds.nl/howtos/alpha-howto.html > >> > >> That's great ! > >> > >> Would you be willing to share the road that lead to this ? > >> Any major pitfalls ? > >> How hard would it be for someone to port SME 5.1.2 to another > >> architecture (e.g. PowerPC) > >> > >Or perhaps a Sparc? > > > >-- > >Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > >Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > -- > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
