On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:09 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> Our plan had been to include URLs to spec files in the pkg metadata.

That's useful for someone who wants to find the latest spec file,
but not sufficient for rebuilding a package.  Generally, you need
more than just a spec file: you need patches, possibly other sources,
manual pages, etc.  They also change over time.

What I described is a feature I'm planning to add to pkgbuild.
It gives parity with an existing svr4 feature (namely source packages
that can be automatically rebuilt).  The OpenSolaris team can decide
whether or not to use this feature, but I do think it's useful to have.

Laca

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