On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Merging consolidations? ? By the people who would be doing the work and > responsible for maintaining it. ? The criteria here would be "Does it > make sense?" and the answer is clearly no - the cost would be too high, > the benefit non-existent.
It was only an organizational question. Obviously it makes no sense in this case. I thought of it only because of Moinaks auto-builder (and my own insufficient steps towards that direction a year ago). Not combining consolidations for development purposes, just for allowing external distributors to build _everything_ in one rush, without interaction and during sleep. I still do not understand all aspects of how Sun does this internally. Every consolidation generates packages individually and just delivers them into a spool area? Is there no automated A-to-Z tool, that compiles everything at once and then automatically combines the binary packages into a distro via distro-constructor (or in the past: How was it done for SXCE?). Sorry for being a bit OT. But I saw it as a good moment to ask this. Thanks. -- %martin bochnig
