Hi Gordon,

Am 15.05.2014 um 19:43 schrieb Gordon Marler <[email protected]>:
> On 5/11/2014 5:59 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński wrote:
>> Em 06/05/2014 06:08, "Gordon Marler" <[email protected]> escreveu:
>> > Stripping out the features in mgar that are native to IPS is probably 
>> > important, to avoid duplication of effort.
>> 
>> My idea was to use "mgar merge" to get the pkgroot directory. Then we could 
>> use any means necessary to build an IPS package front that pkgroot, taking 
>> as much information as possible from the GAR build recipe. Then we would ask 
>> Dago for help in integrating it into GAR.
>> 
>> Gordon, do you think it's possible to start that way? Is anything blocking 
>> you?
> 
> Sounds reasonable.  Just getting myself reactivated and up to speed now.  IRC 
> (I'll be gmarler, duh), and reading up on all that's changed while I've been 
> "dormant".
> 
> I guess the only thing slowing me down would be this:
> 
> - I suppose we'll be starting this IPS repo from scratch, so I'd better start 
> building packages from the foundation up, and we'll fix items as they show up 
> as obstacles along the way.  Is there a nice way to either see or generate a 
> dependency list of the package chain from the bottom up?  That'll provide a 
> nice map to follow.

Sure, these are on the qa pages, e.g.
  http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=imagemagick
(the generation of the graph takes a little time, be patient)
You can click on some boxes and package names, feel free to play around with it.

> Separately, and I'll probably see this shortly, but is there a Solaris 11 x86 
> or SPARC system in the buildfarm?

Sure, unstable11s and unstable11x.

> If not, I have an x86 variant available.  Having a SPARC M-x000 or T4 or 
> higher will be required if we want to have dual binary builds for each 
> package, which IPS supports now.  If not, it's easily added later.

Nobody has donated one yet ;-)


Best regards

  — Dago

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and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896

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