On Jan 18, 2008 6:19 PM, Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

See also my zap suggestion:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=154588&#154588

I remain convinced that simple file-based distribution is essential -
distributing files is a lot more flexible, and likely to be far more
widely deployable, than having to set up specialised servers and
allow network access.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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