Wow, I am not quite sure how to respond Dennis, but let me start with a big
'Thanks'.
I too would really like to see the community come together on this topic. If
there are others out there who are interested in lending a hand and getting
something out there for the community, please speak up!
RE: pkgsrc/make driven ports collections
Personally, I find the usage of darwinports to be the simplest to use and
maintain. Makefile driven ports systems have a history of issues and are a bit
clunky to use IMHO. This can also cause issues if the user is using sun's make
versus gmake etc. (especially if /usr/sfw gets a home under /usr/gnu without
'g' prefixing).
This may help a bit for those unfamiliar with dport semantics (assume we are
installing irssi with ssl and ipv6):
darwinports:
port install irssi +ssl +ipv6
vs. freebsd ports:
cd /usr/ports/irc/irssi/ && make install clean WITH_SSL=yes WITH_IPV6=yes
Darwinports also generates package artifacts. It would be very nice to have the
solaris port system do the same. This is very important, since it unifies *all*
installed software under the solaris package management tools, which I know sun
would be rather keen on.
I would also eventually like to see other opensol projects make use of the
ports system rather than managing their own binary collections and bulid
systems (Personally, I find building from .spec files onerous)
Thoughts?
Steve Stallion
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