For now, I'm planning on using traditional Solaris packages, and uploading them with pkgsend. I'm curious what the next step after that is.
I'm interested in a standard format for something my Makefiles can produce, that can later be uploaded. I'm assuming this would be the logical equivalent of: a tarball a manifest (for checking) any necessary metadata for dependencies, etc Presumably the IPS system would provide tools for creating, checking, dumping, uploading, downloading this standardized on-disk format. I'd be 100% happy with a trivial format, but it would be nice for different projects and distributions to be able to mail each other bits, and archive them etc. An alternative is to make the depot server directory/disk format stable across architectures (IE data-portable) and allow users to tar them up and send them to each other. You'll need to version the depot directory anyway, right? Then you could easily write scripts that use the server internal format as the new package format. Can I use an installed IPS package to create a new IPS package on a new server? --chris Bart Smaalders wrote: > Chris Quenelle wrote: >> Is there an ETA on when an IPS native on-disk package format will >> first be available for people to play with? I was assuming it was a >> ways off still, but I heard a rumor that it was sooner. >> >> --chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pkg-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss > > Hmmm. > > We've kicked around the idea of not nailing down an on-disk format > at all for distribution... or are you talking about the syntax for > a manifest & files for uploading to a repository? > > - Bart > > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
