On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:07:09AM -0600, reed@reedmedia.net wrote:
|On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
|> If we were able to make the build environment independant of how
|> packages were managed, then we could easily generate native packages
|> for any OS, not just pkgsrc tarballs and Solaris packages.
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|pkgsrc infrastructure was improved/abstracted for that.
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|See:
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|pkgsrc/mk/flavor/README which says "Currently, there is only one (the
|native pkgsrc tools), but maybe we can support RPM, dpkg or the Solaris
|native packages someday."

excellent ... sounds like all we need is a little glue then and it might
Just Work ...

|And read this initial commit message:
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|http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/mk/flavor/pkg/package.mk?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
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|So using pkgsrc to build your native packages is a great idea.

excellent - I'll have a look through there as a starting point and see 
what I understand ... :)

Regards,
Malcolm

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