Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > If there would be a port of dpkg to HPUX i would be very happy not > having to learn to make packages with and using RPM! Anybody already > working on such a beast? As soon as my HP is using HP-UX again (soon I hope), I'll start (that is, if no one is doin

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 10:22:54PM -0500, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > > We at Mindspring plan on using dpkg to manage the software on all of > our server machines, if we can get it to do the job to our satisfaction > (which I think we can.) For those of you in Europe, who may not be familiar wit

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Darn... He beat me to it with about a week... :) I was just about to do that > (FreeBSD) port my self, but... Atleast he have not made a HP-UX port yet :D > If there would be a port of dpkg to HPUX i would be very happy not having to learn to make pa

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > > How about dirs in the distribution, like: > > - snipp - > > but those would > have to be working really well for a long time before they could be > integrated. unstable/binary-* ? --

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Todd Graham Lewis
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > How about dirs in the distribution, like: > > - s n i p p - > binary-freebsd > binary-solaris > binary-hpux > - s n i p p - I think it would be a colossal mistake to try to integrate these os's into normal debian, at least any time

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > I've ported dpkg (dselect and everything) to Solaris, Digital Unix, > and FreeBSD. Darn... He beat me to it with about a week... :) I was just about to do that (FreeBSD) port my self, but... Atleast he have not made a HP-UX port yet :D How about dir

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Todd Graham Lewis
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Christian Meder wrote: > where do the packages install ? /usr/local/ or /usr ? I install files wherever the packages want me to install files. That's a package-build-time function, although the override feature in dpkg works, presumably, I haven't tried it. > Perhaps it's ti

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > Hello! > > I've ported dpkg (dselect and everything) to Solaris, Digital Unix, > and FreeBSD. Basically, the programs themselves run, and if I override > dependencies, etc., then I can install stuff. I've made a number of > packages for each of the

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Christian Meder
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 10:22:54PM -0500, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > Hello! > > I've ported dpkg (dselect and everything) to Solaris, Digital Unix, > and FreeBSD. Basically, the programs themselves run, and if I override > dependencies, etc., then I can install stuff. I've made a number of > pac