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𥯜 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/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
