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Every once in a while I get an odd (mostly crazy) idea and go "I wonder if that's possible..hmph" and there goes 3 hours of me tinkering and trying to see if I can get random things to work together that were never designed to. I had such an idea today.
I was playing with some code (while on Fedora, this is important). When the thought occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to package it in to binaries for easy install/removal/updates etc. The logical thing would be for me whip out my RPM-SPEC writing prowess and whip one together. Except, I don't have any, I've never put an rpm together. No problem right? Just download an srpm+find a tutorial and figure it out. Well at this moment "idea monster" decided to jump out of the closet. And rather than going with the former idea I went "hey I know how to make Arch packages!" And we're off to crazytown.
A little while later and I have a working install of pacman on my Fedora install (including makepkg which is what I was really after) and I have managed to package a demo app to prove it worked. Of course, it's completely useless for dependencies (which was fine for my use case since I was just using it to install and remove my own software so all the dependencies were already there). Now of course I have that "morning after" feeling of "what was that?". In any case I thought I'd share in case this story made you laugh as well.
In this land of the pain the sane lose not knowing they were part of the game.
~LP
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IIRC pacman runs fine on FreeBSD, so why not? :-)
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