On Mon, 5 May 2008, James Carlson wrote: > Alan DuBoff writes: >> I am giving my committment to the Alpine package, which I just compiled >> and am sending this message with. > > Paul Jakma had PSARC 2007/609 approved for Alpine. I don't know the > current status of it, though.
Jim, I'm changing my package from Alpine to Exim. I also run Exim on Solaris as my MTA, to make it more interesting I actually run it on sparc. I will look to see if there's a case for Exim, but I would be surprised for Sun to include Exim and would suspect Postfix before it. I'm going to be creating an Exim package for the community, for both x86 and sparc. Now, I'd like your opinion on this, and I hope I don't get blasted for this, but I'll toss it out there anyway. I believe it is inevitable for the community to have a seperate repository, aside from one that Sun would host. We need a place that doesn't have any ARC, opensourcereviews, or any other association to Sun's process. As we form and create packages, it seems to me that Sun could be a user of community packages, just like anyone else. This would allow the Belinix's, Shillix's, Blastwave's, or anyone else to use these packages without having any type of entry to provide a package. At the Summit the concern came up if someone created a package that was called child-porn, for instance, that there could be liability and that we just can't let anyone add a package. I would like to see people allowed to do that, not that the package could stay or would be valid, my point was that anyone in the community should be able to create any package they want, and maybe this is a bad example using porn as the case in point. More what I would like to see is just a seperated repository from Sun, one without any process at all, the rules and/or how a package is accepted can be determined. I fully support Sun's current system, and I would think in the future I might be able to integrate more software, but I've just started to learn the process. However, I'm ok with keeping whatever Sun has in place and/or continuing to uphold such for Sun's distribution, but I would like to see a separation of the community repository if possible, maybe hosted on genunix.org if Al Hopper is ok with that. Can you offer some insight? Am I way off base here? Should I push for Sun to host the repository? We've already seen a couple things that are in conflict between the community and Sun (i.e., the OpenSolaris name itself as a case in point). I figure that even if Sun does create a repository for such packages, we should have a community repository that has no strings attached. Sun folks can take those and integrate them into whatever distro they like, the community would essentially prepare them for Sun so they could take them and use/qualify them, and I see myself involved in that aspect, possibly, but as a community member I'd like to build and create packages for OpenSolaris myself as others do/will. I will commit to creating Exim for OpenSolaris. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
