What is required? I assumed it would just be an FTP or HTTP server. Could someone please clarify?
On Nov 7, 2007 2:27 AM, S h i v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/7/07, Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am wondering if there is a way we can leverage the work the Nexenta > > folks have done to create a 12,000+ package Solaris repository? Also > > the NetBSD package source folks have over 6,000 source packages that > > work with Solaris, it would be great to find a way to leverage those > > to create IPS packages. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Possible sources of work to leverage from to setup a central repository: > - SFW > - CCD > - spec-files-extra(SFE) > - Nexenta repos > - NetBSD repos > - Blastwave > > The tooling used for SFE currently output SVR4 packages. I believe > they are being worked to output IPS packages. Enhancing the SFE > repository for the time being might be a easy means to quickly > populate the IPS repository once it is setup. > > Shall we have setting up of IPS repository as a project proposal and > get going? Without this the utility of the distro is severely > constrained. If there is interest I would like to help with this > effort. > > regards > Shiv > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
