At the camp, we've discussed building our packages into a different prefix. We want to allow people to build, from scratch, their own sets of packages.
There's a number of challenges to get it done. The string /opt/csw and the "CSW" package prefix is encoded in many, many places across GAR code, checkpkg code and build recipes (including patches). There is a number of things that GAR does: downloading sources, running the compilation (multiple times for different modulations), then merging the result into a single image and creating a package. Maybe some of these parts can be replaced with a different piece of code. For example, the Gentoo project maintains a set of build recipes with patches that build fine on Solaris. What they don't have is modulations and SVR4 package building. If we start working on a custom-prefix build, it makes sense to evaluate this option. If it works out, it'll save us a lot of time. Has anyone tried Gentoo Prefix on Solaris before? Maciej
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