On Fri 18 Jan 2008 at 10:07AM, Chris Quenelle wrote:
> 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
At some point I suggested zip or jar, with a metadata file. Since
they are univerisally producable.
> Can I use an installed IPS package to create a new IPS package
> on a new server?
Not necessarily-- packages may not be fully, in the traditional sense,
installed. For example, a package might include 64 bit binaries. On
a 32-bit system, IPS could omit the 64 bit binaries due to its filtering
capabilities.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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