[SunHELP] FreeBSD PORTS collection for Solaris

[Scanlan, Brian (5188)]

Hi there,

A good package will have a list of dependancies - 
Though this will only check if a other packages
are installed. A good package that depends on an
executable might look for it in the system $PATH if it's
likely that it wasn't installed by another package.

man -s 4 depend, man -s 4 compver.

If you want to not bother with having to satisfy dependancies
yourself, then stick with a consistent install method (say,
using pkg-add.sh to install only from sunfreeware.com), and
reading any needed documentation when you're installing a package -
Very often they'll list dependancies.

What you actually want by the sound of things is Debian's apt or the BSD
ports system - There's nothing like watching a package install process
that involves the automation of the download and compile process, but 
satisfying dependancies is always impressive.

Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Conrad [mailto:tconrad at edisonschools.com]
Sent: 14 December 2000 13:31
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] FreeBSD PORTS collection for Solaris


Just out of curiosity...

Is there any way in Solaris to get a list of package dependancies? Or is
pkgadd just stupid? Or is it User Head Gap? It seems whenever I install
something that was compiled against something I don't have installed, it
installs anyways, then I'm left to figure out what I need. RPM's, as much as
they suck (Yeah. Yeah. That's my opinion of them.), at least tell me what I
don't have installed.

I don't know if it's a bad thing or not, but I'm mostly past the point of
really caring how it gets installed, if it automagically goes out and gets
dependancies or whatnot. In the good old days, when I had an over-abundance
of
time, I just compiled everything. Now, I just want stuff to WORK once it's
installed.

Anyhoo.

Tim

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