Re: Debian package manager under Solaris
Previously Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> Before Fulcrum undertakes any serious porting work, I'd like to know if
> there have been any other efforts to port the Debian package toolset
> to a wider range of *nix variants, other than Linux, BSD and the HURD?
dpkg compiles fine in IRIX, HP-UX, SunOS and Solaris. You might have
to patch start-stop-daemon, the current implementation does not handle
all OSes but that should be really easy. dselect will compile on any
system with a recent ncurses. I know for sure that apt works on
Solaris machines as well, I'm not aware of people having used it on
any other systems but I see no reason why it should not work.
> Should I be talking to anyone in particular? Are there other tools about
> that I might not be aware of?
You might not be able to use fakeroot to build packages. You will
probably need GNU make, GCC, GNu tar and probably a few other
GNU tools to build everything.
Wichert.
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