* Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> [2007-09-13 13:35]: > On 9/13/07, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:40:31PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:46 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > > The current prototype can convert SysV packages to the new form, > > > > recognizing resources it has mechanisms for (and dropping the > > > > scripting). > > > > > > If scripting is completely discarded, this sounds more like a transition > > > aid rather than a true conversion. > > > > It *is* a prototype. We plan on converting the WOS by hand. It's the > > packages outside Solaris that are more interesting. I believe that Stephen > > has mentioned in some venue that there are multiple ways to transition, and > > while we don't have the details worked out yet (concentrating on the > > immediate Indiana release means it's not at the top of our to-do lists), > > it's obviously something we'll have to cover and provide useful mechanisms > > for people to use. We know we can't change the world overnight. > > Now I might be reading too much into this, but that sounds rather > like you've already gone beyond the 'seek to develop' stage that > the project proposal claims to be.
An aim of the pkg(1) system is to integrate well with the distro constructor from Caiman and support its goals around easier image construction. One of the pieces we've put energy into during the prototype is the System V package eater; we've pointed that at the WOS (typical install image) and other package sources to test it. It turns out that we have nearly enough to build a interim distro--which apparently is of interest to some community members. I wouldn't claim that that distro should be viewed as anything other than an experimental, potentially interesting byproduct. - Stephen * I feel that I should point out that I've been blogging on this topic for eight weeks now, so it's not been secret for some time. My blog is aggregated by planet.opensolaris.org, I use Technorati tags, and I bookmark my own entries on del.icio.us. -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
