Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2005 21:56 schrieb ext m h: Browsing around on the osx list led me back to the archives of this list (may) for the new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager novel. Is this effort going anywhere? I could probably devote as much as a week to creating a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-08 Thread m h
Thanks for the response, I guess I'll post to the osx mailing list, but really my issue isn't about osx per se, but taking the osx portage port and making it run on any posix system (solaris, osx, flavors of linux etc) in a sandboxed environment. I've read through the developer documentation and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-08 Thread m h
Browsing around on the osx list led me back to the archives of this list (may) for the new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager novel. Is this effort going anywhere? I could probably devote as much as a week to creating a proof of concept (don't know if that will be enough time), but

[gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-07 Thread m h
Hello- I'm investigating the similarities between portage and openpkg. More specifically I was wondering if it is possible to take portage and install in on top of an existing linux installation in its own sandbox (similar to what openpkg does). I've done some googling and found the documentation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

2005-09-07 Thread Brian Harring
Icky on the html email :P On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:45:16PM -0700, m h wrote: Hello- I'm investigating the similarities between portage and openpkg. More specifically I was wondering if it is possible to take portage and install in on top of an existing linux installation in its own sandbox