--- 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. > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > If this is done for the latest JDS (GNOME 2.10-based), I'd be very happy. ~Ken Mays __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
