Re: Porting debian packaging to another OS
On Sat, Feb 2, 2002 at 20:05:00 +0000 (+0000), adrian wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 21:44:12 -0600 (+0000), Jor-el wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > IBM is distributing free software tools for its AIX platform
> > packaged as rpms (its referred to as the aixtoolbox). I happen to be a
> > user of this packaging. I was quite happy with this until recently, when,
> > in order to solve a problem I had to use the package building features of
> > rpm - and I came away quite dissatisfied. I now have begun to think about
> > porting the Debian packaging system to AIX - but that seems too big a
> > project. My basic requirements are that I be able to create and install
> > .debs on AIX.
>
> The way AIX5 is setup, there is a wrapper script (geninstall) which calls
> rpm for rpm packages, installp for normal AIX packages, installshield (ugh)
> for installshield packages and whatever else for UDI packages (IIRC). It's
> a really kludgy solution (e.g. you could have Apache installed in .rpm,
> installp and installshield format at the same time). OTOH adding dpkg to
> the mix shouldn't make the solution much worse :-) I'd like it so that I
> don't have to learn those rpm packaging commands..
>
> Adrian
>
> Email: adrian.bridgett@iname.com
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