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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. 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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  2. Already done for you by terrencefw · · Score: 4, Informative
    inst -f http://freeware.sgi.com/Inst


    Then do keep *, install updated, go


    Inst can fetch stuff over http so what's the problem?

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