On 26/11/2007, Chris Quenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> pkgers,
>
> I'm looking into what it would take to release Sun Studio compilers and tools
> using IPS.  I was wondering if there was any SYSV package converter scripts
> (even partially working ones) that I could play with.  If there's a
> Sun internal alias I should be on please let me know.  Do people expect
> a SYSV->IPS package converter will be good enough to actually base a
> release on it while we get our packaging infrastructure converted over to
> create native IPS packages?  Or should I jump straight to integrating
> IPS "the right way" in our build system (takes longer)?

Sweet! Although, this does raise an interesting problem -- what about
all of the Studio patches out there currently? Will these simply be
packaged up?

> P.S. I was playing with IPS and wanted to test out the indiana depot,
> and I couldn't find the URL of the depot anywhere on the web pages
> on osol.org.  The IPS hg repo also wasn't very well published.
> You might want to consider starting up a wiki on wikis.sun.com.
> That would make it much easier to keep the web pages up to date.
> Any Sun employee can go create their own wiki area.

http://pkg.opensolaris.org -- I think

-- 
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