Klas Heggemann wrote: >> Klas Heggemann wrote: >>> other then browsing the repository at >> sourceforge.net and hope you might find it? >>> It would be nice if the spec-file was included with >> the package, but that does not >>> seem to be the case. If an urgent patch turns up, >> you may then may be able to >>> quickly apply the patch and rebuild the package >> yourself. >> >> spec files are only available for packages in the >> contrib or pending >> repository, and sometimes not even then. However, I >> would suggest you >> email sw-porters-discuss about adding them. > > > This is good. But it would also be a good thing to have spec-files for > packages in the standard repository. An example: > > A new hole in apache is discovered, and nedd for quick fis is urgent. > With the specs-file, it would be easy to fix the code and update the > installation, without having to wait for the maintainer to do the update. > > Perhaps the specs file could be in the packge or as a separate package, > or fetched by some pkg command or other utility.
While that might be nice the majority of software in OpenSolaris is not built with spec files, so that's difficult to implement. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
