Re: Pacman?

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-08-15 21:02, Vivek Ayer wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2006-08-14 19:20, Francis Gudin wrote:
> > > On 14-08-2006, Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> Haven't looked at pacman but I seem to recall that it's a utility for
> > >> managing pkgsrc packages and as such it (probably) used the pkgsrc
> > >> infrastructure to perform it's magic. Thus it ought to work seamlessly
> > >> with the pkgsrc tools. At least as long as nothing breaks in the middle
> > >> of operation.
> > >
> > > You may think about a different 'man'agement tool. Here's an excerpt
> > > from the wiki:
> >
> > Ah, I was thinking of pkgmanager.
> >
> > >  Pacman was ported from Archlinux.
> > >
> > >  The system is similar to ports/pkgsrc but uses build description files
> > >  written in bash, called PKGBUILD, instead of Makefiles.
> > >
> > > I guess pkgsrc could coexist with another third-party software
> > > management tool, as long as both don't share anything on the filesystem.
> > > pkgsrc keeps all its files under /usr/pkg by default; if pacman is able
> > > to do so under another hierarchy, chances are it could work.
> > >
> > > Still to define how pacman would be better, or what pkgsrc lacks wrt
> > > pacman ? IMO, improving pkgsrc support for DragonFly is much more useful:
> > > sharing with numerous platforms (not Linux-centric), clean framework, etc.
> > >
> > > Francis
> >
> > Yes, it should be possible, but it will be harder to administer (two
> > systems instead of one) and I wonder how many of the packages that will
> > work under DFly.
> >
> > --
> > Erik Wikström
>
> Guys,
>
> I usually don't post in DragonFly users lists, but I have one thing to
> say. I run my dragonfly system in qemu on top of Archlinux and I would
> just like to say that pacman has made my package management life so
> much easier. It would be so great if someone could port to Dfly.
> However, the only awkward thing is the bash script used. Many dfly
> users don't prefer to use bash, but I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard
> to write stuff in a different script. I'm willing to help port it to
> dfly since I use it currently anyways. Thanks.

My concern was mostly the fact that many of the applications might need 
slight patching before compiling on DragonFly (take a look at the work 
done to make pkgsrc packages work). pacman not being the official 
packaging system might have problems with a smaller user-base creating 
these patches and testing. On the other hand much work from pkgsrc might 
be applicable more or less without modification.

--
Erik Wikström