On Thu, Apr 22, 2004, Doug Henry wrote:
> I saw that IRIX is in the "forecasted" category on the openpkg website.
> Is there a group working on that port yet?
No, not AFAIK. We especially have no IRIX box available to us.
> I have access to several
> irix machines and am willing to test and build if it will help that
> effort. Preliminary testing suggests there are a few rpm/cpio problems
> to work out. Let me know if I can help out.
If you can provide us access (non-privileged is ok) to a sufficiently
new (version 6.5.x) and powerful (CPU power!) IRIX box, this will help
a lot. Because for the initial porting either you require to have the
necessary patching skills yourself or the porting has to be done by us
on your boxes. Just trying the latest RPM, reporting the problem to us,
we rolling the next RPM, etc. is not a reasonably fast approach for
porting OpenPKG CORE to a new platform.
So, if it is possible, create an "rse" account on one of your boxes with
the above criteria (a recent IRIX OS version and a not too slow CPU
because I have certainly to repeat building packages a lot) I'll try to
port at least OpenPKG CORE to IRIX for our community. Just drop me a
personal note with the box access details, please.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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