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pkgsrc support is worked on by a dev: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/9268 https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/9268 I also gave a go at cro
by plextoria 5y ago
pkgsrc support is worked on by a dev: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/9268 https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/9268
I also gave a go at cross-compiling pkgsrc for SerenityOS. Will resume if I find some free time in the future.
- boricj 5y agoI'm indeed working on it (meta-issue progress tracking is over there: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/8605 https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/8605). However, bootstrapping pkgsrc is a stressful test of reliability, stability and POSIX-compliance for any operating system, let alone a hobbyist one. I've yet to have a pkgsrc bootstrap finish successfully without hitting a bug, deadlock, coredump, kernel panic or some combination thereof. It's like repeatedly stubbing one's toe on a sharp POSIX edge. That's not counting actually building packages inside SerenityOS (pkgsrc doesn't support the kind of cross-compilation we'd need to build packages on a Linux host for a SerenityOS target), which will probably expose lots of other bugs, race conditions and limitations.