macports on linux

[Niels Dettenbach]

Am Dienstag, 2. April 2013, 16:32:51 schrieb Benito Mourelo Caldeiro:
> Portage is Gentoo's package management system. It is similar in idea to
> the BSD ports collections: the original design was based on FreeBSD
> ports. In contrast, the Portage tree does not contain directories of
> Makefiles,
Yes and no,
portage uses Makefiles too - but the "origin" ones - means: generated by the 
usual origin configure scripts in the origin software tarball of the software 
usually/as possible from original source url. Portage does just eventually 
required parametering of the configure process.

So an ebuild is "similiar" to an macports portfile.

pkgsrc uses make directly as a "platform independent" tool with own Makefiles 
while Gentoo portage uses python as this is "platform independent" as much as 
required for Gentoo...

Both concepts are nice but has pitfalls too...






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