At 9:40 Uhr +0200 28.06.2002, julien letessier - Sun Microsystems - Meylan France wrote: >Hi list! > >I've been using Fink for a long time now, and I've recently been >hired by Sun (summer internship) to create/port a debian-like >packaging system to Solaris. > >I've a simple question: do you devs, who know Fink's internals, >think it's easy to port to Solaris? Given 'dpkg' and 'apt' already >have been ported?
It depends a lot on what you want to port. As others mentioned, the Fink package manager should be fairly straight forward to port (for example it runs on the Linux shell server at SourceForge to regenerate our package database from a cron script). It's a bit different for the package. Some will proabbyl work unchanged; but many contains OS X specific patches, and may or may not work on other systems; finally for some you will certainly need Solaris specific patches. Short: Package manager will be easy to port, packages will be more work, esp. if you want to get *all* pacakges we offer. Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
