Hi, While I'm not suggesting that we 'package' Debian for SPARC (As there is one AFAIK), has any tried porting dpkg/apt to Solaris? Those of you in the ISP/WPP space may know about a certain 'denial' that some people have, in that they genuinely believe that Solaris is the perfect OS for Webserving, and application hosting. The catch is. that Solaris is about as old as god, and has packages that predate most of us. Also, building apache again from source everytime someone finds a hole in it, or one of it's shared libraries is getting painful. To be able to go apt-get source xxx -b, and install the package sounds like a dream. If no one is looking at this, I'd like to at least investigate, which leads to a few questions. 1. How would I put dpkg/apt on an existing system, but vanilla Solaris 7 or 8 install? I can handle the actual porting, but I'm not completely sure I understand the applications at the /var/apt and /var/dpkg hierarchies. (If this is documented, please point me in the right direction, and ignore this RTFM question) 2. Can we even build 90% of applications on Solaris? And if we did, is there any interest or should I just keep it to myself, and send portability patches to apt and dpkg maintainers? Regards, Aubin -- "PUNK IS: a belief that this world is what we make of it, truth comes from our understanding of the way things are, not from the blind adherence to prescriptions about the way things should be. " - Greg Graffin
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