On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:45 -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > 5) Rpm is rpmbuild as well. Though you don't have to use it to build > the software and the package, it's a lot easier and usually a good > discipline because it automates much of the process.
pkgbuild intends to be rpmbuild for Solaris. See http://pkgbuild.sf.net JDS is built with pkgbuild. > 1) Upon package creating, the tools automatically scan for known > dependancy types. dynamic libaries are scanned for symbol names and > versions (as supplied by the linker, I guess), perl, python and > concievably other interpreters will be scanned for statements that > indicate dependancy such as "use" in perl, or "import" in python. pkgbuild doesn't do this yet, but "autoreqprovider" is on my todo list. It won't be too difficult if I re-use Alan Coopersmith's check_deps script. Laca _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
