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Automated Package Management for IRIX?

Posted by Cliff on from the someone-port-apt-get-please dept.

wowbagger asks: "We've all heard of the various apt-get packages for Mac OS X (and more power to them!), but does anybody know of a similar effort for Irix? Yes, SGI has their freeware distribution of GNU and other utilities, but there is as far as I've seen no good way to automatically update - you just have to go to the SGI open source server (when it is available) and try to find something new. Has anyone set up a apt/gentoo/redcarpet system to automate this process"

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  1. Irix package management by termos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IIRC there is something called swmgr for IRIX, if that's not what you mentioned in the "SGI open source server" thing. At least it should handle dependencies, and I also found some old slashdot comment on the subject available here.
    Hope this can help.

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  2. inst by rf0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not automatic but the best way might be similar to the following as it should avoid dependancies

    download all the iso images and save them locally to say /dist/disk[1234]. You can also script this. Look on http://techpubs.sgi.com but basically

    inst -f /dist/disk1 -f /dist/disk2 -f /dist/disk3 -f /dist/disk4
    inst upgrade
    conf (there shouldn't be any conflicts as you are updating everything)
    go

    come back in 10 minutes

    HTH

    Rgds

    Rus

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  3. *ROFL* by Outland+Traveller · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't believe I just saw someone say "inst" and "avoid dependancies" in the same sentence!

    Gotta love SGI's inst packages.. Never the same upgrade twice, circular dependencies, and a 10 minute per install cleanup routine.

    The only thing it's good for is job security.