Re: AIX and Debian packages
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Tony Godshall wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a Debian (unstable preferable) package repository
> > for AIX (5.2) ? Google hasn't (yet) turned up anything promising...
>
> You may want to indicate more clearly what you want to do.
>
> Are you intending to run debian binary packages on AIX? If
> so, you are probably out of luck.
Yes, I'm looking to setup, or get access to Debian packages
that run on AIX.
> Unless you'd like to switch from AIX to Linux. Check out the
> Installation Manual at www.debian.org.
Not an option, unfortunately... I need to keep AIX on this box,
and the native compiler, I just don't want to have to live with
the dearth of its userland.
I've seen a few posts that imply some folks have been in the
same boat - and was hoping to save the early effort of
cross-compiling the toolset.
> Are you trying to get source code? If so, you can get
> source code through http://packages.debian.org. I think
> you'll find that the requirements for a package being
> accepted to Debian make for some of the most portable code
> around... after all, packages have to be autobuilt on n
> architectures.
Yeah, that is hopefully my fallback position... 'tis a shame
that I can find RPMs that are installable on AIX - but not,
as of yet, dpkg and the core utilities.
--
Rick Nelson
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