What I tried to tell is I think after a time period (I don't know when will that be) OpenSolaris will be all in CVS that I can just checkout and make my own Solaris ISO images (or we will have a directory layout that we can install OpenSolaris from using maybe http or ftp method) . Or maybe there will be no ISO but with a few extra command we can do that. But as far as I see there are problems for doing this
There are some source files that we can't have because of license issue but I think that is something that we overcome by using opensolaris-closed-bins-${DATE}.tar.bz2. And as far as I know cvs is updated only every 2 weeks and opensolaris-closed-bins and opensolaris-src-${DATE}.tar.bz2 are released according to that. Am I right?
Yes you got me all right with my `` interval level'' phrase. By the way sorry but I am new to this mailing list. Who is Joerg and where can I reach his work?
On 11/1/05, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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