Mandrake and emerge / portage

Zwisel · 11-04-2004, 04:10 AM

Hello there

I've got a question about Mandrake and gentoo's emerge/portage.

I am a gentoo user in the business and a Mandrake 9.1 user at home. And now I want change from Mandrake 9.1 to 10.1 at home. But because I really like the emerge, I want also use it on my mandrake system. And now I'm curious: Is it possible to use portage/emerge on my Mandrake System?

Is there someone who knows that?

Thanks and regards,
Zwisel

fancypiper · 11-04-2004, 07:44 PM

I don't believe emerge is available except for Gentoo and it's offspring.

Gary987 · 11-13-2004, 01:10 PM

Well the closet equiavlent to gentoo for mandrake would be..

urpmi <package>

You could use that and install source rpms..

But emerge is a Gentoo thing... while Mandrake uses the Redhat Package Manager

Cheers, Gary

Zwisel · 11-15-2004, 07:48 AM

Thanks both of you for help. I think I want try first urpmi...

cheers

cs-cam · 11-15-2004, 07:30 PM

I've heard of people getting portage to work under OS X so it's probably possible, I just wouldn't have a clue how

SuperCoffeeMan · 11-24-2004, 07:40 PM

I use Gentoo 2004.3 and Mandrake 10.1 OE, and portage for Mandrake would be dandy. And I know it is possible, because the portage maintainers are porting portage to many operating systems; OS X, Darwin, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and many more. If this can be done, then portage for Mandrake can be done. I absolutely hate rpms, but I like mandrake, the old catch 22.

cs-cam · 11-25-2004, 07:51 PM

Well then you aren't gonna like this

Portage 2.1 will be RPM-based.

bornhj · 11-26-2004, 01:00 AM

Hehe make sure you read the text with green background

shashir · 12-20-2004, 11:28 AM

Slackware has portage.... some Emerde/Radice deal... I googled it somewhere.

drawhla · 12-20-2004, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shashir
Slackware has portage.... some Emerde/Radice deal... I googled it somewhere.

yeah, but it sucks (I tried it)