On Sep 9, 2014, at 6:28 AM, Alejandro Imass <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Jerry Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Actually I want to verify the some security property for several softwares >> on ubuntu apt package manager, it seems that they are only in apt, not brew >> or macport, that’s why I was trying to install apt using macport the other >> day, hoping to install them on mac. > > Sometimes package names will not match exactly but almost surely any software > available via apt/dpkg is packaged from a more generic source distribution > and most likely available in MacPorts if it's a popular package and would not > be so hard to port otherwise. I suggest you research what the original > project source is (unless of course is a proprietary and closed binary > software made for specifically for Ubuntu (e.g. Skype for Linux)). Usually > the language is a tell-tale sign of where and how the package could be > sourced for MacPorts or simply download the source and compile yourself. > > Even if the package is not directly in MacPorts, most likely a lot of the > dependencies and tools necessary to build it are. Examples are any packages > originally developed in C, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. In these cases, > even though the package itself is not directly in MacPorts, most or all the > base tools would so building from source is usually very easy. As Alejandro says, just because a piece of software isn't in MacPorts currently doesn't mean that it couldn't be in the future. You're welcome to submit a request ticket for any software you'd like to see included in MacPorts. https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets vq _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
