On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would venture to guess that a significant majority of users will never > need to or want to recompile or alter the software as you suggest. > > They're going to want a stable, tested version of the software, and that > means a pre-built, pre-configured binary that's been signed by their vendor. > > Since you need or want a more flexible system, I'd suggest you discuss > it with the pkgbuild folks. Or on conary, which features "cooking source recipes". It is as easy as this: # conary emerge --no-deps bash:source=3.2.10-7 (build bash and makes a binary set of "troves" out of it, which then constitute a binary package that is under conary's control in its database backend. Configuring the "recipes" can be comapred to setting up spec files for pkgbuild (or rpmbuild). %martin > > It is highly unlikely that the IPS team will focus resources on a build > system as it won't help us reach our primary goals and the resources > spent developing are better spent on improving the primary user experience. > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
