BoyOfDestiny
May 2nd, 2006, 12:51 AM
I'm wondering if anyone here has tried to run portage on Ubuntu, as described here
Installing portage on other distros, easier than ever (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125553)
Ideally I'd put it on both my dapper 32 and 64 installs... I want to make it clear I don't want it to do OS core updates (no messing with the kernel, gcc, etc). The only reason I want access to portage is for more apps/plugins.
RANT:
There are already some apps I build from source under ubuntu:
pan-0.94, advancemame-0.104.0, scummvm-0.8.2, advancemenu-2.4.13, dosbox-0.65, libbinio-1.4, uade-2.02, audacious-1.0.0, vice-1.19, checkinstall-1.6.0 ,mednafen-0.5.2.
For cvs version of zsnes and svn version of audacious, I have scripts to automate checkout and building...
For the stuff I listed, it's either not included in the dapper repos, out of date, an issue with the repo package (i.e. vice not having the c64 kernals, [yes with an 'a' in this case] and out of date too...)
So for that stuff, had to go the page, download, uncompress, get all the dependencies, build, checkinstall, repeat...
Anyway, works great, but it would be nice to be able to update these automatically if it wouldn't be too disastrous...
P.S. I'm not ready to even think of switching distros. I enjoy Ubuntu (and Dapper especially) way too much. Not to mention the community we have going here :)
Installing portage on other distros, easier than ever (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125553)
Ideally I'd put it on both my dapper 32 and 64 installs... I want to make it clear I don't want it to do OS core updates (no messing with the kernel, gcc, etc). The only reason I want access to portage is for more apps/plugins.
RANT:
There are already some apps I build from source under ubuntu:
pan-0.94, advancemame-0.104.0, scummvm-0.8.2, advancemenu-2.4.13, dosbox-0.65, libbinio-1.4, uade-2.02, audacious-1.0.0, vice-1.19, checkinstall-1.6.0 ,mednafen-0.5.2.
For cvs version of zsnes and svn version of audacious, I have scripts to automate checkout and building...
For the stuff I listed, it's either not included in the dapper repos, out of date, an issue with the repo package (i.e. vice not having the c64 kernals, [yes with an 'a' in this case] and out of date too...)
So for that stuff, had to go the page, download, uncompress, get all the dependencies, build, checkinstall, repeat...
Anyway, works great, but it would be nice to be able to update these automatically if it wouldn't be too disastrous...
P.S. I'm not ready to even think of switching distros. I enjoy Ubuntu (and Dapper especially) way too much. Not to mention the community we have going here :)