Re: [OT] Re: Solaris/Debian
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:20:26PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
>
> Sorry this doest 'H', pkg-get uses sunfreeware which suprises me over and over
> again with it's low quality packaking. When I need something for solaris, I do
> apt-get source <foobar> on debian, scp the source and compile it. This usually
> works, which in the first place made me wonder, what would be the problem of
> compiling it the debian way via apt-get -b source <packet>?
Two reasons:
1. there is no standard place/naming of archiving the source code for these
packages. (Well, okay, there kinda is, but more importantly, ...)
2. There is no standard BUILD METHOD for compiling the source code for
these packages.
The debian "packaging manual" goes above and beyond simple packaging.
It specifies "It must be compilable using this method"
apt-get merely takes advantage of existing debian standards.
[whereas I had to pull teeth to get the maintainer of sunfreeware.com
to just run the catalog script. Doing anything further would be...
challenging. Now, if you want to suggest another publically
trusted site, with loads and loads of free bandwidth, and
cooperative admins, I'd be happy to work with them too :-)]
PS: I'm working on a text-gui version of pkg-get. Somewhere between
apt-get, and dselect.
Unfortunately, it uses FMLI for the menuing system framework. So it's
not easily back-portable to debian, unless someone knows of a free
clone/workalike of FMLI
http://uw7doc.sco.com/SDK_charm/CTOC-_Introduction_to_FMLI.html
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