I've started a project: "Arching" porteus
My goals are:
Port pacman to porteus (done)
Port ABS to porteus (or fork it)
Port all helpers from arch to porteus
Add Arch linux pkgs compatibility in PPM
Write some tools to convert Arch pkgs into modules, installing pkg.tar.gz...etc
Make an unified way of managing pkgs with slackyd and pacman without any conflict (impossible)
Make Porteus more Arch Way!!!
Things I've done so far:
-ported pacman to porteus and built a module
Things I'v planned to do:
Move the true core deps into the core module (porteus booted with only kernel and core modules will be a fully FUNCTIONAL textonly system) and then make an "arch-base" module which will contain all basic Arch stuff (pacman, AUR helpers ... etc).
Booting with kernel+core+arch-base will lead to a minimal FUNCTIONAL textonly slack64-arch64 hybrid sysem.
I insist on on the term FUNCTIONAL cuz when I wented to boot porteus with only kernel+core modules the resulting system was filled with missing core libs (like libxml, libarchive [very important for pacman to run]... etc)
Please help me and mail me at drumboss972@live.fr!!!
By a 14 years ol french linux fan!!!
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