On 30/05/2008, at 6:38 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Antonio Huete Jimenez <ahuete.devel@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello
I would like to know if there is some work in progress to porting pacman to any BSD system
You may want to take a look at the archives for this month: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-May/thread.html
Many of the posts from Sebastian Nowicki are related to getting makepkg to work on Mac OSX which is obviously similar to BSD. http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-May/011830.html http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-May/011837.html
In addition, libalpm & pacman should be fully buildable and testable on BSDs and OSX. libfetch will be used in place of libdownload, and libarchive must be available as well. We did a lot of work last October to get it compiling on FreeBSD. This is all available in the pacman git repository.
With that said, none of us main developers use BSD as a primary or even secondary system, so it doesn't get much testing. We would need help from someone in those communities to help out and ensure we remain compatible.
I have been using pacman on Mac OSX for about a month now, and it's working great. As far as I can tell there's nothing wrong with it on BSD. As I said in another mail, there are still some problems with the dev toolset (makepkg, repo-add, etc), but makepkg is getting there, it's definitely useable. I haven't tested pacman on FreeBSD or any other BSD, but I don't see why it wouldn't work there as well. -- Sebastian Nowicki