Darren Kenny wrote, On 12/12/2007 12:34: > Personally, I would have liked the IPS system to have also included a new > OpenSolaris build system too, like Debian packages do, which would be used > for > *all* packages,
Let me clarity this. The Debian packaging system (dpkg) does not have a special build system because it is not needed. Dpkg can use whatever building mechanism the source package is based on, and therefore there is no need to reinvent a new one for it. It can build autotools based programs, plain make, cmake or anything else that can be invoked from a script - a Makefile target, actually. Personally, that is the main reason why I cannot still understand by the IPS packages doesn't support binary to source packages references and rebuilding. There would not be any need to impose a new building system. We could have implemented the binary to source link and keep using the original compiling mechanisms without any kind of problem (as Debian does). Having the links and order (one to one, one to many, etc) between source and binary packages, the compiling support should be a different layer of abstraction and would be up to each one which compiling mechanism they base their applications on. > but that's not how it's done right now, and I don't know if there is > any intention on going that way unless the community really push for > it... I do hope so.. I have used that a million time on Debian. It is a really handy way of taking advantage of having the source code available. -- Greetings, alo. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
