[SunHELP] FreeBSD PORTS collection for Solaris

[Scanlan, Brian (5188)]

Hi there,

Sun suing people for what, exactly?

For those out there who don't want to wait for a ports
collection to get underway (BTW, there's already been
a failed attempt to get the debian package management system
called "apt" to Solaris - http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debsol.php3
I don't think anything's been done with it for a while), the best
offering out there is Phil Brown's pkg-get - It automates the installation
of packages from ftp servers. Works fine, I got it to work with
pkg-reloc to install stuff where I wanted too.

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: blake.r.matheny at mail.sprint.com
[mailto:blake.r.matheny at mail.sprint.com]
Sent: 13 December 2000 22:03
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] FreeBSD PORTS collection for Solaris


Yeah I'd definitly be interested. I think it's a great idea. The only 
thing I worry about is Sun suing people.
-Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: wonko [mailto:wonko at entropy.tmok.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 3:13 PM
To: sunhelp
Cc: wonko
Subject: [SunHELP] FreeBSD PORTS collection for Solaris


i know we have sunfreeware.com to get pre-compiled binaries from, but 
would
anyone be interested in a FreeBSD PORTS style system?  i'd need port 
maintainers
to keep things rolling (i can barely be expected to do it all myself!!) 
but
i'd really be interested in doing something like this if i can get 
enough 
interest from everyone else.

for those of you who don't know what the PORTS collection is, email me 
and i'll
tell you.

wonko at tmok.com

-brian
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