--- Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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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If this is done for the latest JDS (GNOME 2.10-based),
I'd be very happy.

~Ken Mays




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