* Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-19 16:49]: > 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.
Agreed, but I want to delay the development of this capability, since the operations will necessarily be a subset of the server-based operations (and also because I do want the various projects, community groups, and other upstream sources delivering via the active APIs and not via file-packages--that is, I want to change and expose the publication processes as well). The zap proposal was pretty solid as I recall (although I am partial to tar as an archive format...). I hope we can get to coding file-package support in the next preview release interval, or perhaps the one after that... - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
