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DaNiMoTh

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Registered: 2006-06-10

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Pacman on OSX

Hello to all,

How many of us have used MacPorts to get all the tools we need under OSX? How many have used Fink (I hope a bit less, 'cause Fink is based on apt - and for me it is a pain! - )?

In both cases, we have to compile all things, with a lot of dependencies every time. No binary distribuition!
So, instead of making packages for these project, I was thinking about a crazy idea: porting, and use, makepkg + pacman under OSX, with a public binary repository. What a beautiful dream...

The first thing is: Can be useful? How many are interested?

Then, I discovered some point that needs to be discussed *before* implementation.

1) Where install packages?
-- For me, the best location isn't /usr or /usr/local, as explained here [1]. For handling this and don't hard-modify any PKGBUILD, IMHO we need to modify makepkg in a way that all installation will be prefixed with our default.

2) Link to the Apple System libraries?
-- I'm unhappy with both: if we link to the apple libraries, we could break into these problems [2], but linking with our own will cause many missing dependencies when installing a single package (yes, there is pacman that handle this, but if I want a git installation I don't want 100 Mb of dependencies, otherwise I download the sources and compile it myself with 0 kb of dep).

3) How organize our repo?
-- Universal (big big size) or divided by arch? In last case, we may need a makepkg's feature, from a single PKGBUILD obtain 2 (or 3) packages: ppc, x86 and x86_64. Maybe a little more time for the packager, but less time and size for the end users. No, not using the ppc arch is a bad way - I'm using a PPC

Your thought are welcome. If other problems will be found, I'll update this post.

Many thanks

[1] http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#defaultprefix
[2] http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#syslibs

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Pacman on OSX

I am sure that this has already been done.

Edit: 
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70396
http://archlinux-gaming.org/projects/arch-osx

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DaNiMoTh

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Registered: 2006-06-10

Posts: 260

Re: Pacman on OSX

It seems died

Anyway, question 2 & 3 are still valid.

For the question 1, I see that Arch-OSX uses /opt/arch.