Hi Gordon, You need to reply to the list from your @opencsw email address.
Maciej On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:39 PM, gmarler <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I'm pretty much only doing S11 and IPS for the past 2-3 years. > > Publishing is currently done via the built in S11 pkgbuild tool, but mgar > could easily outstrip it's lacking features. > > I can manage the S11 host's pkg/server SMF service, and do a continuous > brain dump on everything I've learned. > > And there's thankfully documentation for the IPS packaging concepts that > have been missing for quite some time. > > Stripping out the features in mgar that are native to IPS is probably > important, to avoid duplication of effort. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" > Date:05/04/2014 1:29 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: CSW maintainers > Subject: We should talk about getting IPS packages going > > Our community site counts visits. Questions about IPS and Solaris 11 > have are visited more often, by about 1 order of magnitude. > > http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/ips-questions.png > > We're an open source project, so the sole reason why we don't have an > IPS repository is that nobody did it yet. From my conversation with > Dago about it, there are 2 things that need to be done: > > 1. IPS backend for GAR > 2. build environment - somebody has to administer it > > I also know that some of our maintainers effectively got inactive > because they mainly need / build IPS packages, and we don't have a > framework to do that. > > Each time we talk about IPS, we look a bit like this: > > http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/startrek-1.gif > > Maybe we should get something going, something quick and dirty? It > might be something like running "mgar merge" and then a completely > different command to build the package? That would be completely fine > for now. > > If the resulting IPS catalog would be in someone's home dir, that > would be fine too. When it's done we can move it to a common place. > > If packages were built on somebody's VM, that would be fine too. > > Does anybody here manage Solaris 11 hosts? > > Maciej > >
