Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >at work we are looking into package management for sysadmin stuff that we >do. Its not really my project but, as a debian supporter and a true believer >in dpkg being better than rpm or anything else that I have seen, I am >pushing for dpkg to be used. > >Mainly we are looking at using it under Solaris right now. I found >a few old references scattered on the web to people doing this, and >so far the best thing that I can see is to just dive into the dpkg >source and have a go at compiling it etc. > >In any case, I figured I would throw out a message and ask, who is >doing this right now? Any successes or caveats? Really any information >would be great to help out.
I don't know of anybody actively doing it, but as I understand it the dpkg code is fairly portable. I remember hearing of people getting it to compile under HP-UX, and Solaris is a good deal closer to Linux than that. If you have problems getting it bootstrapped, most of the interested people read debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org and will probably be happy to help. Watch out for how this interacts with Solaris' own system, of course. Are you planning to use this as a means of managing /usr/local or something? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
