On 03/10/11 01:38 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote:
>
> Good to know. Thanks.
> I've just subscribed to the list.
>
> btw: what is the status of pkgbuild in relationship to ips/pkg and what
> Oracle is doing? I mean is it a spare time project being used mainly (only)
> by SFE community (is SFE alive?) or is it being used by Oracle as well (it
> was used for SJ)? Is it going to be provided via Oracle repository? I think
> it should as otherwise creating packages in Solaris is rather cumbersome
> unless I missed some tools which well might be the case.
>From the Sun/Oracle point of view, pkgbuild was developed by the JDS
team when they needed to make the JDS packages available for both the
Solaris and Linux versions of JDS, and continues to this day as the
official build system of the JDS/Desktop consolidation.
It was also picked up for other projects such as SFE (a definite
spare time project) and SourceJuicer (which lives on in a way as
the new JDS build server system internally), but building JDS is
its core mission.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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