Re: [gentoo-dev] Comparing Openpkg with portage

[m h]

Browsing around on the osx list led me back to the archives of this list (may) for the "new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager" novel.  Is this effort going anywhere?  I could probably devote as much as a week to creating a proof of concept (don't know if that will be enough time), but would like to collaborate with others interested in this.  I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of portage (just a happy gentoo user since 2002), but I am comfortable with bash and python and have read the developers documentation.

Thoughts, comments?

On 9/8/05, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks for the response, I guess I'll post to the osx mailing list, but really my issue isn't about osx per se, but taking the osx portage port and making it run on any posix system (solaris, osx, flavors of linux etc) in a sandboxed environment.

> I've read through
> the developer documentation and didn't find anything there.  Google
> hasn't necessarily been very useful either....
> So, is it possible to sandbox a portage installation on top of say a
> debian or fedora install?  If so, can anyone point me in the right
> direction?

With current ebuilds, nope.  There's no global prefix offset in the
code for it (root is merge offset, not runtime prefix offset).

The osx port runs with the same ebuilds as the main portage tree right?

> Do any of the devs out here have experience with openpkg?

Pretty much an extension of rpm spec's, afaik.
Beyond that? Heh, nope :)

The basic idea is you bootstrap an environment on an existing system, and then build rpm's on top of that.  It would be nice to take advantage of Gentoo's larger component tree (openpkg has ~400 items) as well as the larger gentoo community.