On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMHO, it is the systems level thought and integration that makes
Debian more than simply a collection of pre-built packages.
Obviously, I have been quite impressed by the thought and effort
that has gone into the Debian system, and agree with David that
OpenSolaris could benifit from it.
Yeah, that exactly what I mean. Debian will bring a huge set of
quality software greatly integrated to OpenSolaris.
Why do you expect that packages that only have been tested on Linux
will even compile on Solaris?
Because the vast majority of those packages have been run on a large
variety of OSes including Solaris. I'm not advocating an particular
packaging system (aside from Sun's), but the software products
themselves will have a very high "out-of-the-box" build success rate.
The most common mistake that open-source packages make is not
respecting the --libdir argument to autoconf's configure. This makes
it a bit of a pain to put things in /prefix/lib/$(ISA)/ and the same
thing with --bindir.
Still, "porting" efforts for the vast majority of these projects are
simply build process modifications and fixing up of compiler flags
and install targets. Hardly ever does it require source code
modification.
What I think would be great is a FreeBSD Ports style package
orchestration system... And you you type "make package" it drops a:
PORTname-version.gz in an export directory for administrative
consumption. The overall system would simply consist of a versioned
pointer to the original source, set of patches to the source
(rarely), patches to the build process (commonly), the pkginfo file
and a Makefile that "does it."
Sounds spectacular to me. It's an orchestration of packages, because
the entire system sits well outside of the administrative scope of
the machine itself -- packages aren't "installed", just produced.
You can do pkgadd, pkgrm them as you please.
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