Hello-
I posted in the gentoo-dev mailing list yesterday, but figured I'd post here
since it is somewhat closer related. I'm investigating the differences
between portage and openpkg. For those who don't know about openpkg, openpkg
allows one to install rpms in a sandboxed environment accross multiple unix
platforms (bsd, redhat, debian, gentoo,...). It consists of a way to
bootstrap an environment and a bunch of spec files used to create rpms
specifically tailored for that platform. The idea being you could run the
"same" components across different platforms in your environment.
It seems that Fink and Portage for OSX are providing similar functionality
on top of OSX. My question is what would be involved in generalizing the
Portage OSX port to unix platforms similar to what openpkg is doing. An
example might be that while I need to run Suse at work, I could install
portage into a sandboxed location and enter that environment. This would
allow me to run newer components, better integrated, security patched, etc,
while still having the corporate environment if I needed it.
Ideally the benefits for doing this would be to allow many platforms to take
advantage of portage, use the large ebuild tree (openpkg has ~400
components), as well as use ebuilds that are tested probably a little bit
more than openpkg (I believe the gentoo install base is a least one or two
orders of magnitude larger than openpkg).
Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are appreciated.
thanks
matt
I posted in the gentoo-dev mailing list yesterday, but figured I'd post here
since it is somewhat closer related. I'm investigating the differences
between portage and openpkg. For those who don't know about openpkg, openpkg
allows one to install rpms in a sandboxed environment accross multiple unix
platforms (bsd, redhat, debian, gentoo,...). It consists of a way to
bootstrap an environment and a bunch of spec files used to create rpms
specifically tailored for that platform. The idea being you could run the
"same" components across different platforms in your environment.
It seems that Fink and Portage for OSX are providing similar functionality
on top of OSX. My question is what would be involved in generalizing the
Portage OSX port to unix platforms similar to what openpkg is doing. An
example might be that while I need to run Suse at work, I could install
portage into a sandboxed location and enter that environment. This would
allow me to run newer components, better integrated, security patched, etc,
while still having the corporate environment if I needed it.
Ideally the benefits for doing this would be to allow many platforms to take
advantage of portage, use the large ebuild tree (openpkg has ~400
components), as well as use ebuilds that are tested probably a little bit
more than openpkg (I believe the gentoo install base is a least one or two
orders of magnitude larger than openpkg).
Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are appreciated.
thanks
matt