From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9099 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2004 19:22:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9025 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2004 19:22:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO q7.q7.com) (207.173.201.42) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 31 Oct 2004 19:22:13 -0000 Received: from q7.q7.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q7.q7.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9VJMANf023265 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:22:10 -0800 Received: from localhost (skeezics@localhost) by q7.q7.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i9VJM93m023259; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:22:09 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: q7.q7.com: skeezics owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:50:00 -0000 From: Skeezics Boondoggle To: Lincoln Peters cc: Xconq list Subject: Re: SDL Interface Development In-Reply-To: <1099249482.26829.6236.camel@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01385.txt.bz2 On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Lincoln Peters wrote: > You should be able to run apt-get on Solaris, and use that to resolve > the dependencies. I found a post on the Debian archives that indicates > that apt-get will compile and run on Solaris, but I don't have Solaris > so I can't vouch for it: Well, for Solaris 2.6 and 7 I built extensive libraries of RPMs for Solaris; I'm planning a complete Solaris 8 environment at home (since I have a lot of older sun4d hardware that's EOL'ed after Sol8), and I've played with 9 a bit at work, and now with 10 coming... I'm not sure if I have the physical stamina needed to build full-blown RPM support for all those platforms. 25 years of banging on keyboards is finally taking its toll, and my hands ache just thinking about it. I've used apt-get (with "Fink") on my son's Mac OS X box, and it seems fine. But I'm not sure I want to bother with another packaging scheme for Solaris. So, Solaris native packages are slow and horrible; RedHat started making RPM far too Linux-specific and annoying; OpenPKG seemed like a good direction, but they made a bunch of stupid/annoying decisions too; The old "make install" route went out of vogue with SunOS4; I really don't need to learn Yet Another Packaging System now, because I'm too old/lazy/tired. So, basically, I'm screwed. :-) Unless I want to rely on one of the Sun freeware sites, and they never quite do things the way I like. Sigh. For now, I'll just stick with RPM. When I get a free moment I'll try a Solaris 7 build, and report back on how that goes. -- Chris