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rudix-mac / rudix

Build system target on macOS with precompiled packages
https://rudix.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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More documentation, description vs homebrew, etc #48

Closed JasonJAyalaP closed 6 years ago

JasonJAyalaP commented 10 years ago

The website talks about using the native pkg functions of OSX. Rudix installs to / and keeps track of the install files like RPM/Deb? The website could talk about how this is superior to homebrew's concept of keeping everything in Cellar/ + symlinks.

A comparison to brew/macports/fink/nix is necessary, I think.

I tried to find out how to build packages. I'm guessing from github/documentation/makefile, I fork the repo, edit a makefile using the example, and make a pull request? The github README could explain this.

Are the binary tar.gz files, which the makefile points to, expected to extract cleanly to / ? Are there any special functions for more complicated tarballs?

santagada commented 10 years ago

Those are all great tips, we could improve docs across the board thanks.

The difference from brew is that everything is a self contained package so you can just download a .pkg from rudix and be done with it. No recompilation in thousands of machines of the same code, no dependencies to care about.

Starting a new port is easy, just fork the repo, add your directory on the right place and use a makefile for guidance (we really need more docs about this). Usually the default steps download sources from upstream, build them (trying to statically link depencies) to a prefix directory (/usr/local IIRC) and them package the resulting data in a pkg... all without messing with your computer.

JasonJAyalaP commented 10 years ago

And once I create the makefile, how do I test it?

The packages are built and stored on a rudix server?

ruda commented 10 years ago

@JasonJAyalaP , I usually build the packages in my Machine (on a bunch of VMs), so it's OK to build on your machine, there is no test grid ou build grid. The packages are stored in Rudix Server, which I maintain, the packages are uploaded manually by me, so I would not use your package, but I build for my on own and then upload. So I bulld packages for Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion and Snow Leopard.

If you're having trouble, we can schedule a Hangout or a session on IRC. Thanks!