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 -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
