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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. sgi's apt-get .01 by slithytove · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have one sgi with 6.5.13 and I installed a few of the freeware collection packages before I wondered this same thing. There is a a script linked to off the faq at freeware.sgi.com - I'm pretty sure thats where it is, but its been a little while and I'm not going to go find it for you because I had a bad experience with it.
    First of all there were a couple minor things wrong with it that I can't even remember, but I fixed them- they were pretty obvious. Then I installed everything I wanted. Most of it worked great, but I had a few problems and figured a reboot might help. Now after logging in the menubar loads but nothing else- really weird state like nothing I've seen in linux. I'm going to do a re-install though soon and I'll be happy if someone has a better answer than this:)
    And it is possible that it was a peculiarity of my system that caused it, but I cant think what- just be careful.

  2. dpackage by Sevn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can remember at Mindspring years ago we installed
    the dpackage system on FreeBSD and on Digital
    Unix 4.0x. I don't recall it being very hard
    to get the system up and running. Before someone
    jumps my shit about ports being significantly
    better, I agree. The reason we went with dpackage
    was because we did a lot of custom in house
    code, and dpackages are very easy to put together.
    This meant that the developers had to hand the
    admins dpackages. If for any reason the install
    didn't work or the package was moofed, it got sent
    back until it did work. It made developing a project
    life cycle much easier.

    --
    For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.