Portage package manager

Hi would it be possible to port / support Gentoo’s portage into RiscOS, or is there something similar to that already? Thanks

Looks overcomplicated for our typical use cases… for starters, things are not typically “built from source” and there are two different, incompatible, tool chains in use which could complicate issues somewhat.

For a high level “here’s an archive with an app in it” akin to a sort of app store, there is the !Store application. It should be supplied with most (all?) RISC OS images, or you can get it from http://www.plingstore.org.uk/exec/ps/download.aw

For a more package-based approach including dependency handling, most (all?) RISC OS images ought to come with !PackMan. https://www.riscos.info/index.php/PackMan

I’ve seen both, just thinking having recipes on how to build the packages like portage has is a good thing for the ecosystem. Thank you for the pointers.

I’ve seen both, just thinking having recipes on how to build the packages like portage has is a good thing for the ecosystem. Thank you for the pointers.

It sounds like the GCCSDK autobuilder is the kind of thing you’re describing. It is very fragile, so I wouldn’t mind if something like Portage or Arch Linux pacman replaced it, however the requirement to generate both RISC OS PackMan packages and packages for the cross-compiler may make it more complicated to use off the shelf solutions.