Subject: Re: extracting foreign packages
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/20/2003 12:51:44
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 06:58:04PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> DEB: do we have anything?

Recently someone has ported the Debian tools apt and dpkg to NetBSD.
See 
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2003/debian-bsd-200304/msg00001.html

> Solaris packages (.sol): same question.

AFAIK, we do not have tools to read System V packages. On pkgsrc+Solaris, 
we have the ability to create such packages with gensolpkg. 
(This works very well for me.)

best wishes,
Chris