On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:54:57PM +1300, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > 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.
Doug corrected me offline also. He mentioned having a URL to a tarball of all those things. > 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. I agree. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
