Subject: Re: pkg_comp on other platforms
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/20/2006 13:56:42
On 6/19/06, Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu> wrote:
>
> pkg_comp is ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM= NetBSD-*-* for obvious reasons.
>
> But I find it to be such a wonderful tool I'd be interested in helping
> to identify the minimum required components in the chroot environment on
> Linux, AIX and Mac OS X.
>
> Has anyone else begun work on this?

Just as a FYI, pkg_comp will not work at all on Interix -- too many
tools on that platform are wrapping around Win32 tools that are
forbidden from running in a chroot environment.  As to the other
platforms, go for it!

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>