I'm confused. The opensolaris web site is filled with great words about community involvement, but the arc-as-gatekeeper process is about as community-hostile as one could imagine.
Any clues on when the "community IPS repository" will happen? Without it, there's no community. What's involved in making it happen? [ I have to admit that I chose sudo as an experiment in being a community member because I knew it touched off lots of hot buttons ] On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:11 PM, Albert Lee wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:09 -0700, James Gosling wrote: >> While it isn't on the list of TBD packages, I'd like to volunteer >> to add >> "sudo". Every time I install Solaris, it's always the first >> upgrade I >> make. It seems silly that it's missing. How do I go about adding >> it? > > sudo is also one of the first packages I always add to a fresh > install. > Unfortunately, adding software to the pkg.opensolaris.org repository > involves more process than just submitting the bytes since the > software > there is provided and maintained by a number of different sources, > including OpenSolaris ON and SFW consolidations (and some others like > the Sun Studio team). > > I can see three stories for making sudo available to everyone: > Making it > one of the core utilities (alongside su and pfexec), making it > a /usr/gnu thing (SFW), or providing it from the default "community > repository". The first two options deliver into pkg.opensolaris.org, > while the last will deliver into an as-yet-undetermined, but probably > separate repository that might be easily enabled (but not by default). > > For the first option, you'd have to file a case with the OpenSolaris > ARC > and basically submit design specs and go through a code review. The > software will then live in the ON tree. > > The criteria for SFW integration are less strict, but an ARC case for > inclusion is still needed. sudo will probably receive extra scrutiny > due > to its security implications. (There's also the potential policy issue > where people familiar with sudo will use it exclusively and not take > advantage of pfexec's finer grained security model). > > In the third-case, sudo is currently one of the packages in the the > community-maintained spec-files-extra repository, which is a likely > candidate for seeding a community IPS repository. Setting up this is > still being worked out, but this option is the most flexible since the > process should be much less involved than "official" integration > (which > basically evolved from Sun-internal processes). > > Yeah, it's complicated. > > -Albert > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
