heya, Awesome, relocatable packages sound great =).
Many organisations (including mine) do have arbitrary rules about this. For example, my workplace will let us install (or rather, they'll install on our behalf) packages into /usr/local. However, we can't install (or even create a symlink, apparently) into /opt. Very strange, but we have to work with it unfortunately =(. I'd be happy to test any such builds, or help out in any way I can. For example, with the help of the mailing list, I've managed to fix my WRONG ELF CLASS errors, yet running emacs gives me: bash$ ./emacs > Warning: arch-dependent data dir > (/opt/csw/libexec/emacs/23.1/i386-pc-solaris2.8/) does not exist. > Warning: arch-independent data dir (/opt/csw/share/emacs/23.1/etc/) does > not exist. > Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/csw/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp' does not > exist. > Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/csw/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist. > Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/csw/share/emacs/23.1/lisp' does not exist. > Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/csw/share/emacs/23.1/leim' does not exist. > Error: charsets directory (/opt/csw/share/emacs/23.1/etc/charsets) does not > exist. > Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files. > Please check your installation! > Cannot open load file: warnings Finally - for a userspace package manager, what do you mean? Do you mean the ability to install/remove packages from filesystem locations we have read/write access to? (e.g. our sysadmins can grant us access to /usr/local). Because I thought pkg-util ultimately just delegated to pkgadd/pkgrm, which require root access anyhow? Cheers, Victor On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:14, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Maciej, > > Am 27.07.2011 um 21:25 schrieb Maciej Bliziński: > > I was wondering how much work would it be to build the world with a > different prefix. Companies will probably have arbitrary rules about where > you can install packages. If we made it possible to build the world in a > custom prefix, many organizations would benefit from it. I started a test > build like that in a VM, and I plan on having a stab at it, just because > it's interesting. > > > > If there are other people who are thinking about it, and would be willing > to spend some time testing such builds, let me know. If there is interest > and we join forces, we have a better chance of succeeding. The success could > be defined as a set of packages (coreutils, etc) that successfully build > under a custom prefix, and work. > > I am interested in this. Additionally, some kind of userspace package > manager would be > really cool. > > > Best regards > > -- Dago > > -- > "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting > to do something, > and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd > #896 > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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