Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From my point of view what's needed in OpenSolaris is something that is
> > focused on the end user, and the ability customize. I believe that is
> > one of the biggest reasons of the SRPMs success. This time the focus
> > has to be on OpenSolaris and its coming distributions. Schillix is the
> > first distribution, and I don't know which PMS Schillix its meant to
> > support...
>
> Their source/build system is the SchilliX SPS system, and, last I heard
> the binary package format supported will be the Sun standard, SVR4 packages.
It will be once SVR4 pkg has been released.
Meanwhile I use star and a shell script to extract tar archives that have been
auto-created by SPS.
The star packages (usually) don't include directories and star is called this
way:
star -xp umask=022 dir-owner=root dir-group=bin .....
at install time. This makes sure that system owned directories are not
overwritten by wrong owner and permissions and it makes sure that there is
a useful standard set up.
To create the tar archives, we use control files that look similar to the
files used by the SVR4 pkgsystem and as star's man page lists the related
option as unstable, I may even change the interface at any time to become closer
to the SVR4 pkg system.
All packages are extracted from the local / mount point.
Packages that need postinstall scripts incorporate things like this:
5148 -rw-r--r-- root/sys Jul 28 15:14 2005 kernel/drv/aperture
518 -rw-r--r-- root/sys Oct 16 20:21 2001 kernel/drv/aperture.conf
9048 -rw-r--r-- root/sys Jul 28 15:14 2005 kernel/drv/amd64/aperture
4068 -rwxr-xr-x root/bin Jul 28 15:14 2005 usr/sbin/aptest
331 -rwxr-xr-x root/bin Aug 1 16:14 2005 tmp/postconfig
Packages that only "patch" the current system inlude tmp/* files only:
205 -rwxr-xr-x root/bin Aug 2 14:03 2005 tmp/postconfig
599 -rwxr-xr-x root/bin Aug 2 14:04 2005 tmp/set_keyboard_layout.patch
30 -rwxr-xr-x root/bin Aug 2 14:04 2005 tmp/postconfig-rm
Jörg
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