We're building SVR4 packages and then converting them into IPS. That conversion requires that we have at least a stub IPS manifest (right?).
Modularity would suggest that we should keep the IPS data "near" the point where we create the SVR4 packages, and somehow carry it through the process to the IPS conversion. One sensible way to do that would be to put it into the SVR4 package, as an additional file (or files) that the SVR4 processing doesn't use. That way we only need to carry around a single object, and in stream form, a single file - the SVR4 package. I suspect we'll do this regardless for our own sanity, but it seems like the best way for it to be done would be for the IPS conversion process to understand this convention and extract the IPS metadata from the package. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
