"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Well, why not. But, what's the rationale of this effort? -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
