Hi,
Glynn Foster wrote:
Any thoughts for creating a packaging community, or is it too early to
go that direction just yet?
Not a bad idea.
The packages from the companion cd, or blastave or sunfreeware will all be
regular solaris packages. I guess that Steve as gatekeeper will be
responsible for building the actual packages, so the community effort will
be mainly around the source.
However a packaging community would better enable us to discus how to build
packages. For example what variables actually do what in a pkginfo file
regarding zones installation. Or as Rich mentioned earlier 'some people
might not like the way Blastwave sticks everything under /opt/csw' - even
putting some things under /usr and other under /opt and /etc can be
problematic. This might be valuable if there was scope for external
developers to submit packages for sanity testing/auditing for the companion
CD, or even for Steve to delegate some package creation.
If these packages are to be supported by patches (the stuff under /usr/sfw
is in s10) then a separate packaging community will be needed without
doubt. That depends on having the gate and tools open enough for people to
create patches.
I'd be interested in helping out with that community. Perhaps its a little
too early, but I can't think of a good reason not to start the ball rolling.
Can I also add my congratulations to Steve. In college we liked sunfreeware
so much we set up the first Irish mirror! Best wishes.
Cheers,
~Al
--
Albert White - Patch System Test - SUN Ireland
http://blogs.sun.com/albertw
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