James Carlson wrote: > Jason King writes: >> There are bits required that aren't redistributable (thus needing the >> packages off an SXCE iso). I know there are plans to create a >> repository hosted by Sun for those bits, but even once that's there, I >> don't think the issue goes away. The current solution would be to >> install everything from both repositories. As pkg.opensolaris.org >> gains more and more packages beyond what you see in SXCE today, I >> really question if 'install everything' is going to be a reasonable >> answer. I'm also not sure that I agree that it's an Indiana issue -- >> to me it's a lack of specificity > > No, it's an Indiana issue. > > For doing ON builds on SXCE, the answer is quite simple and specific: > install everything on that DVD. > > For the OpenSolaris distribution, I agree that the answer will have to > be much more complex, partly because the notion of "everything" has > become much slipperier, but also because the installation expectations > are fundamentally different. > > Perhaps they'll have a special package (like "entire") that you can > install that will drag in all the current dependencies required to > build ON. That sounds like a nifty way to solve the problem, but > since it's really an OpenSolaris distribution issue, I do think you > ought to discuss the mechanism used to solve the problem there.
There was a discussion there already this week on creating an "on-dev" or similar cluster that installed everything you needed to build ON, much like ss-dev installs Sun Studio & the typical development tools & packages. A bug report was created to track this idea: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3570 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
