[parisc-linux] HP-UX application support?

Steven Pritchard steve@silug.org
Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:36:19 -0600 (CST)


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
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