need adivces and opinions

Nadim · 11-03-2003, 08:06 PM

ok i was surfing on the yoper site and i founded that they ve imported the portage on their distro (who cares ...) but i was thinking(hey next time don't let me to think too much ..)to install it on my beautiful slackware
so i ve download it .. and yoper and slack have the same package management .tgz so i did not try it yet ..
but will it work ? am not that courageous yet with slacky but anyone have any opinion or even advices about it ?

martinman · 11-03-2003, 08:09 PM

.tgz really isn't "package management" as much as a filetype

within this G-zipped tarball (TGZ, if you understand

) , is source code, which you can compile yourself on most any distro.

and just so you can sleep tonight, YES, building from .tgz sources will work just fine on Slack, it is a source based distro after all...am i wrong?

Nadim · 11-03-2003, 08:12 PM

you are right
but all i wanted to say that i will just do it by installpkg blabla.tgz
this is what i mainly meant without usign the tar xzvf blabala and ./configure

rotvogel · 11-03-2003, 08:39 PM

Don't think you should use packages of other distro's . The chance these packages will be working on your Slack machine is small. They are compiled against other libraries/versions etc. Maybe they will overwrite things you don't want, resulting in a corrupt system . But they could work, I didn't try and I won't try it on my own systems.

martinman · 11-03-2003, 09:46 PM

oooo!! i was assuming you were just untarring and ./configure...blah blah

well, i dont even use slack, so i put in a noble effort