On 20 Mar, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:49:02PM +0100, Pierre Vaudrey wrote:
>>I would like to install the swarm-2.1.1-1.rh6.ppc.rpm package on my osX
>>10.1.3 PowerBook. What do you recommend ?
>
> Has anybody ported RPM to OS X? I have a ton of packages that
> I've built as rpms for Linux and SCO OpenServer, and it would be
> a lot easier for me to get them running on OS X than manually
> building them.
Hmm, your binary rpms would have to be recompiled for Darwin. As for
source rpms, this is probably not the best way to proceed, because
Darwin is a BSD and not a Linux. For example, the various ports
systems from the BSD world, such as the one at GNU-Darwin,
automatically patch sources for BSD. In contrast, RedHat sources are
likely to be modified for GNU/Linux, and so they are less likely to
compile for Darwin.
GNU/Linux-ppc binaries are not useful for Darwin either, because to my
knowledge, no one has built a Linux compatibility library yet.
Having said all that, RPM is sometimes useful, and there is even an
RPM-4 based distribution for Darwin out there somewhere. GNU-Darwin has
an RPM-3 package, and rpm2cpio works great too. If you need RPM-4,
maybe someone else will explain how to install that.
If you are looking for thousands of free software packages for Darwin
and OS X, check out GNU-Darwin and TDC. I don't think that your
GNU/Linux rpms will be very useful.
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
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