Re: Pacman?

2006-08-17 Thread Csaba Henk
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:05:25PM +0200, Andreas Hauser wrote: csaba.henk wrote @ 17 Aug 2006 05:52:41 GMT: them). They let everything meddle in the basic /{usr/,}{{s,}bin,lib} hierarchy and that's a very bad idea IMHO. Especially on BSD. Use a chroot. Pacman can do this via an option

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-17 Thread Andreas Hauser
use / and accept that parts of base get overwritten, which gets less of a problem the more of base is converted to pacman. -- Andy

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-16 Thread Vivek Ayer
Whatever it may be, I like pacman, bash and all the other shells out there. Archlinux has many packages in its repository that require patching as well. This shouldn't be a giant hurdle. The thing is it would kind of be neat to write scripts in a different shell. This would also give

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-16 Thread Pieter Dumon
it to DFly, so I think its better to put effort in pkgsrc than in alternatives. Pieter On 8/16/06, Vivek Ayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever it may be, I like pacman, bash and all the other shells out there. Archlinux has many packages in its repository that require patching as well

Pacman?

2006-08-16 Thread Pieter Dumon
On 8/16/06, Gergo Szakal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TBH, I don't see why have ports for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo and whatever, why not make a system that has many packages for many OS's. Well, that is exactly the goal of both pkgsrc and portage, isn't it ? (Both are meant to be portable over

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-16 Thread Csaba Henk
On 2006-08-16, Vivek Ayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever it may be, I like pacman, bash and all the other shells out there. Archlinux has many packages in its repository that require patching as well. This shouldn't be a giant hurdle. The thing is it would kind of be neat to write scripts

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-16 Thread Csaba Henk
On 2006-08-16, Gergo Szakal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TBH, I don't see why have ports for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo and whatever, why not make a system that has many packages for many OS's. Having used FreeBSD a lot, using OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD now, I don't understand why their package

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-16 Thread walt
Csaba Henk wrote: {...} Have you tried, eg. pkgmanager (that said, it's in wip, not pkgtools? I just happened to try it tonight, but it doesn't seem to work out (on Linux, not Dfly). Anyway, it's not a reason to give it up... it looks fine... I have settled on wip/pkgmanager as my primary

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-16 Thread Csaba Henk
On 2006-08-16, Pieter Dumon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that is exactly the goal of both pkgsrc and portage, isn't it ? (Both are meant to be portable over /runnable on any OS AND architecture). Gentoo Portage has a very BSD-ish philosophy (except for being GPL), and it has some 1000s of

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-15 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 15.08.2006 um 21:02 schrieb Vivek Ayer: However, the only awkward thing is the bash script used. Hmm. You are the second person considering bash as evil. What might be the reason for this? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-15 Thread Erik Wikström
create some problems (like pacman using bash- scripts instead of sh-scripts). -- Erik Wikström

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Am 15.08.2006 um 21:02 schrieb Vivek Ayer: : : However, the only awkward thing is the bash script used. : : Hmm. You are the second person considering bash as evil. What might be the : reason for this? : :The problem is the licensing. Many BSD users prefer that essential or :standard

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Hauser
bastyaelvtars wrote @ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:54:55 +0200: Yeah, it's me again. I have read the according wikipage and read info about pacman as well and it looks good. Now I would like to ask whether it conflicts with pkgsrc, and if so, will there be resolution, and whether integration

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Hauser
erik-wikstrom wrote @ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:43:12 +0200: On 2006-08-14 17:54, Gergo Szakal wrote: Yeah, it's me again. I have read the according wikipage and read info about pacman as well and it looks good. Now I would like to ask whether it conflicts with pkgsrc, and if so

Re: Pacman?

2006-08-14 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2006-08-14 19:20, Francis Gudin wrote: On 14-08-2006, Erik Wikström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't looked at pacman but I seem to recall that it's a utility for managing pkgsrc packages and as such it (probably) used the pkgsrc infrastructure to perform it's magic. Thus it ought to work