On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, ken mays wrote: > > > --- 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > If this is done for the latest JDS (GNOME 2.10-based), > I'd be very happy.
As opposed to (or maybe in addition to) port-specific README files, I know the JDS team captures port-specific knowledge in pkgbuild (modeled after rpmbuild) spec files, which I think pretty much provides everything one might need to replicate a build... Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
