On May 28, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> So, what happened? I haven't seen a report yet - did
the hackathon
> happen,
> were there any results that are worth reporting?
I worked on the pkgsrc bootstrap process on Mac OS X. First,
I
persuaded mkbinarykit to generate a Mac-native package. This
should
help make bootstrapping on the Mac a point-and-drool affair.
Then,
with help from Thor, I persuaded all the bootstrap tools to
build as
Universal binaries (i386/ppc/ppc64/x86_64).
We thought we were real cool dudes until Erik actually tried
adding a
binary package on his Intel system (using the bootstrap
built on my
PowerPC) and uncovered a runtime bug in the Universal
pkg_add(1).
It's not fixed yet, and there are probably more such
host-vs.target
logic errors. So the Universal stuff is not nearly fully
baked, but
the oven's pre-heating.
More Mac pkgsrc goodness is in progress. At some point the
hackathon
had to stop, but I haven't. 
- Amitai
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