On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > The source packages have always been available for the Companion CD, just
> > that
> > they grew so large that they were not included on the CD, AFAIK. You can
> > download them from http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/ at your
> > convenience.
>
> I know this, but it is a different thing to sometimes have a prosa text that
> explains what has been done from having the build environment...
This wish caught my eye because several people mentioned it here.
The thing is the Companion CD package maintainers did provide some
build information. So to help out in this regard, I just grabbed it all
and put it in a central location.
What I'm talking about are the special README files (called sfw.README)
that were created by the package maintainers to supplement each CCD
source package. The problem is, while these READMEs are available for
download from the Sun download system, they aren't extracted and
centralized in a way that people can can easily peruse them. So I just
went to the Companion CD (for Solaris 10) build area and ran a for-loop
command that copied all the sfw.REAMDEs into a central temporary
directory naming them: <SFWname>-<originalname>-<version> (e.g.
SFWrsyncS-rsync-2.6.3pre1).
I tar'd up that directory and put the tar file here for now:
http://speakeasy.net/~boutilier/sfwREADMEs.tar.gz
Note that the level of detail in these READMEs varies widely. Many have
just one line (e.g. "built with gcc"), but many others have lots of detail.
--Eric
P.S. Should this kind of resource go on opensolaris.org? genunix.org?
And of course we can put the files on a browsable webpage too if
people think that would be useful.
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