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hi,
Can arch binaries be used for other linux distributions like slackware and ubuntu?
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Do you mean Arch packages? Possibly, as long as the directory structure is the same (I.E. /etc/init.d vs /etc/rc.d).
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Do we have something that Slackware & Ubuntu don't?
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There was a community project that started a while ago where you can create packages for other distros in Arch called unipkg.
Though I don't know if there is any activity anymore...
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There was a community project that started a while ago where you can create packages for other distros in Arch called unipkg.
Though I don't know if there is any activity anymore...
http://github.com/paradoq/unipkg looks quite fresh.
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If a binary was built with "--prefix=/usr" would it work with a distro that uses say "/usr/local/"? It would break the distros standards just like installing to "/usr/local" would on Arch, and may cause other problems. Also, there may be patches missing etc.
edit: since you are talking about binaries I assume you mean simply untarring them rather than using a package manager.
Last edited by loafer (2010-08-08 19:38:15)
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Acecero wrote:There was a community project that started a while ago where you can create packages for other distros in Arch called unipkg.
Though I don't know if there is any activity anymore...
http://github.com/paradoq/unipkg looks quite fresh.
To me it appears there was no activity since it started 2 months ago. I understand it is a fresh project, just no recent updates.
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karol wrote:Acecero wrote:There was a community project that started a while ago where you can create packages for other distros in Arch called unipkg.
Though I don't know if there is any activity anymore...
http://github.com/paradoq/unipkg looks quite fresh.
To me it appears there was no activity since it started 2 months ago. I understand it is a fresh project, just no recent updates.
Ooops, you're right, not much going on there.
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