From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA11309 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:36:19 -0700 From: Steven Pritchard Message-Id: <200003120236.UAA10891@osiris.silug.org> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP-UX application support? In-Reply-To: <56D553C0B61BD311AD2300A0C9F485C2038D0FD0@xfc02.fc.hp.com> from "MEYER,ALAN C. (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" at "Feb 28, 2000 02:14:17 pm" To: "MEYER,ALAN C. \\\(HP-FtCollins,ex1\\\)" Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:36:19 -0600 (CST) CC: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII List-ID: MEYER,ALAN C. \(HP-FtCollins,ex1\) said: > Also, I am assuming the install model will be to simply copy files from an > HP-UX system over to a PA/Linux system. In particular, I have heard of no > plans to support HP-UX packages bundled in "SD" format. Right? The SD depot files are just tar files. Supporting them would be trivial. You can always untar it, move everything to the appropriate location, and run the scripts. Making that automated (maybe with alien) probably wouldn't be at all difficult... Steve -- steve@silug.org | Linux Users of Central Illinois (618)398-7320 | Meetings the 4th Tuesday of every month Steven Pritchard | http://www.luci.org/ for more info