On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:07 -0600, Jim Walker wrote:
> It looks like the CBE isn't needed for pkgtool
> anymore and the packages it installs can be
> out-of-date. Is there a specific reason why
> it's used in the build grid?

The "CBE" is really the Desktop CBE.  We use a CBE for the
Desktop Consolidation for several reasons:
 - in the past, none of the tools in the Desktop CBE were
   in Solaris
 - sometimes a too new or a too old version of a tool can
   break our build and we can't wait for the package to be
   updated in SFW.
 - Desktop developers can use the same set of tools regardless
   of the build of OpenSolaris/Nevada they are running

pkgbuild itself doesn't depend on any of the tools in the
Desktop CBE, specific Desktop spec files do.

All that said, ideally we shouldn't need a separate Desktop CBE
and pkgbuild is already on the project list of integration into
OpenSolaris.

Laca

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> > Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:11:15 -0600
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