On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:04:57AM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Yes that's a problem. But I think this issue can be resolved if we have > RELEASEs that comes out every 6 months. Just like FreeBSD does. > Currently AFAIK every build is out in every 2 weeks which is too short > to hanlde RELEASEs.
You're welcome to do this. > I hope someday we will use nightly and Install scripts just like make > world in FreeBSD. In FreeBSD ( I am sure most of you know that) every 6 > months RELEASE ISO's are build (there is also a thought to make releases > every 3 months) and from source tree we issue a few command to build > latest sources (using cvsup and make world in /usr/src and after that > build and install kernel in /usr/src/sys/... ) without waiting RELEASES. > Also in FreeBSD you can build your nightly ISOs.. This is exactly what nightly does, except that it doesn't attempt to build ISOs because there is more to an OpenSolaris distribution than each consolidation. It does, however, build packages (currently broken except for Solaris), which could be combined with other consolidations' deliveries to make ISOs. I've been told there are better ways to build ISOs than the scripts that Solaris RE uses, and considering how much work people like Joerg have already done, it shouldn't be prohibitively difficult to implement what you suggest. > Sorry if I wrote too much about FreeBSD but its update system is the > best I think because there is no interval level between source and > binaries thus makes everything very simple. If I understand you correctly, this "interval level" is an artifact that will go away. The intent is to have continuously available sources just like FreeBSD. What you build on top of that to aggregate binaries for your distribution's CD/DVD/netinstall images is up to you. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
