Max Horn wrote: > At 9:40 Uhr +0200 28.06.2002, julien letessier - Sun Microsystems - > Meylan France wrote: > >> (snip) 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.
That's very fine for me... The Solaris community currently endures scattered (and incompatible) efforts to package standard tools (in the SVr4 pkg format); having a centralized Fink-based solution to do it would allow the patching efforts to join! Anyways, thanks for the info. I've got another question (if you don't mind giving me a little of your time): do you have some documentation pointers to help me understand how the "package repository" (the one Fink communicates with at SourceForge.net) is to be set up? does dpkg (or Fink itself) take care of it, and how? Cheers, --mezis "Fink is not Debian brought to darwin. It's much more." --quote from a Solaris sys admin ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
