On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This suggest that the Solaris-specific build knowledge that every > > OpenPKG package maintainer had to acquire in order to deliver Solaris > > packages to the OpenPKG system has been captured and made available for > > re-use in Solaris-specific src.rpms on their site... Is that true? > > (I'm assuming that this falls into that notorious category called "If > > it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is". But hey, unless > > I'm dreaming, my beloved White Sox have reached 50+ wins before July, > > so apparently anything is possible! :) ) > > Oh, it's even better than that. The src.rpms that OpenPKG provides > will build using the OpenPKG system on any OS that OpenPKG supports...
That's the central design goal of pkgsrc too, and it's great. I was actually hoping there were separate src.rpms for each OS though, because if it's like pkgsrc, the multi-platform design of the system necessitates a lot of complexity under the hood. Having said that though, it's great to hear that OpenPKG is effectively a public respository of re-usable Solaris-specific build knowledge for 500+ open-source packages. Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
