This is a perfect conversation to migrate over to the new desktop list: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
Jim Jake Hamby wrote: >>The CBE we use for JDS internally is based on the >>pkgbuild >>(http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/) >>tool that Laca (aka Laszlo Peter, who produced >>pkgbuild and is also our >>main RE person in >>the JDS group in Sun). These tools work off rpm type >>.spec files >>(actually is possible to share >>these .spec files with the Linux build system - we do >>this too), and >>generate Solaris Packages. >>The CBE also includes things like the compiler, >>automake packages and more. > > > I started playing around with the source packages at the JDS page to see if I > could upgrade myself to GNOME 2.10 with at least some of the JDS patches. I > don't have much time to work on it, but I like what I've seen of pkgbuild so > far. I'm curious though where the source packages are for fontconfig and > freetype2, since they're not part of the JDS source package download, and of > course there are newer versions than what's in there now. I haven't looked > at the Solaris CD contents; is there a CD which contains source packages for > those GPL and LGPL packages where source code and diffs are required to be > provided? > > BTW, one thing that bothers me about Blastwave is the lack of an open > repository to download whatever is necessary to recreate the binary packages > myself. It looks like there's a lot of "hand hacking" going on and the end > result is pushed out as binary packages. If Blastwave would start using > something like pkgbuild to automate the build process, I would be much > happier with the concept. > > -- > Jake > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
