Automated Package Management for IRIX? 28
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"
It's quiet. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's quiet. (Score:2)
I've only just gotten into sgi's since I used to drool over the ones that are now going on ebay for $50-1000
Maybe a whole new generation of irix users are awakening! hehe, nah I know, but theres a few of us:)
Re:It's quiet. (Score:2)
100 plus lb. dual proc Power Series GTX. Other than bringing up the GTX because it's...there
(and it's still kind of fast), the other machines just aren't very interesting any more.
The GTX eats so much juice, and throws off so much heat, I only run it for short bits in the winter.
Shame, I used to really like SGI stuff.
Re:It's quiet. (Score:3, Funny)
Like when you're in a tomb.
Eleven comments so far... (Score:2)
sgi's apt-get .01 (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:sgi's apt-get .01 (Score:1)
Irix package management (Score:2, Insightful)
Hope this can help.
Re:Irix package management (Score:2)
It's a pity that compiling GNU and BSD sources aginst IRIX is such a black art. It seems that autoconf hurts you more than it helps on SGI. So, it is hand-editing Makefiles and trial/error, untill you aquire the knack for Irix.
If this weren't the case, there could have been a Fink [sourceforge.net] for Irix 6.
I remember how I felt triumphant when I could finally bu
Re:Irix package management (Score:4, Informative)
Works every time? Not more than half...
There is a long-standing link from the freeware pages at SGI [sgi.com] which states:
This is a fair warning, and the devil is in the details...
something more automated than swmgr? (Score:4, Informative)
You can point swmgr (and inst too - maybe?) at a directory containing tardists over HTTP. It will sort out the dependencies and install/update everything you want.
It isn't quite apt-get or up2date interms of automation, but it gets the job done. I'm not aware of anything that automates swmgr/inst so that it will automatically notify you of updates. However, SGI releases Freeware on a cycle, so you should know about when to update your installed packages.
Dead unices should be opensourced (Score:2)
When you have to ask slashdot for a package manager for your unix, that unix is dead. There are other dead unices like SCO unixware xenix (if you can count that) and of course the old sysv and the likes, sitting on some companies shelves rotting away. They could do great service by releasing them opensourced so development on the can start.
If they really want to keep a hold onto them, they can do what Sun did with Solaris, release free x86 binaries (free for usage not alteration and distribution) and sup
Re:Dead unices should be opensourced (Score:2)
I think you'll find it probably isn't dead. They are still releasing new versions on a 3 month cycle like they always have done ever since 6.5 was released.
There are other dead unices like SCO unixware xenix (if you can count that) and of course the old sysv and the likes, sitting on some companies shelves rotting away.
WTF???? Xenix really has been dead for years! You're comparing apples to very mouldy rotten oranges.
dpackage (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
NetBSD pkgsrc (Score:3, Informative)
Darwin 6.6/powerpc
Debian Linux/i386
FreeBSD 3.5/i386
FreeBSD 5.1/i386
IRIX 6.5/mips
IRIX64 6.5/mips
OpenBSD 3.2/i386
Slackware 8.1/i386
Solaris 8/sparc
Solaris 9/sparc
Solaris 9/i386
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/pa
Of course, you have to compile the packages using the framework they provide, but where will you find 3000 precompiled Irix binaries anyway?
Re:NetBSD pkgsrc (Score:2)
Re:NetBSD pkgsrc (Score:2)
- Hubert
inst (Score:5, Insightful)
download all the iso images and save them locally to say
inst -f
inst upgrade
conf (there shouldn't be any conflicts as you are updating everything)
go
come back in 10 minutes
HTH
Rgds
Rus
*ROFL* (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Re:*ROFL* (Score:2)
rus
Already done for you (Score:5, Informative)
Then do keep *, install updated, go
Inst can fetch stuff over http so what's the problem?
Re:Already done for you (Score:2)
It looks like a great trick, so I just tried it and... Segmentation fault (Core dumped)
Screw SGI (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:If you have to ask for the price.. (Score:2)
What I learned (Score:2)