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.
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