New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri May 11 01:51:57 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <f20c8u$htp$1 at sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> typed:
> > I cannot currently actively participate in implementing proposed things,
> > but I can give advice on sqlite, database and xml schemas if anyone
> > wants to...
> 
> One of the things that would be nice for a replacement to do would be
> to correctly install i386 packages on amd64 platforms (and similar
> things). 

This has nothing to do with a new packaging system and can be done
today if someone cares enough to work on it.

> The binaries will run if we have all the libraries installed,
> but getting them installed is painful. At the very least, an installed
> package needs to know what platform it was built for, so that packages
> being installed cross-platform have a chance of figuring out whether
> or not the installed version of FOO will work for them, or they need
> to get a version for their specific platform. If the new version can't
> make cross-platform installs work, hopefully that goal can be kept in
> mind while the work is beign done.
> 
> Personally, I'd still like LOCALBASE to move out of /usr/local. Maybe
> it's time to reconsider that.

Not gonna happen as a default, but you can change it on your systems
if you like.

Kris


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