Ananth wrote: > Hi, > > based on the responses for the package management, i think we will be using > the pkgbuild based system in the future. Moinak, what kind of help would you > need with packaging the softwares ? >
Basically get the packages to build and then prepare the Solaris Spec files as per the Pkgbuild guide and commit them to the SFE repository: http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ If the stuff builds on Solaris Express then it will build on BeleniX. If you need to modify source code then you should prepare unified diffs using diff -u <original> <modified> and commit the patches to the SFE repository. I am going to put up a complete package list currently in BeleniX website. Some of those are already present in SFE and some are not. You can see which ones are not present and pick up one an work on it. Just so that we do not duplicate work please notify me if you start compiling something. That goes for anyone else who are doing this. I will send an email once the website modifications are done. Sriram (Narayanan): Since you have compiled XULRunner it should be a good idea if you can a get Spec file + patches (if any) into SFE. > the next main issue for most people is the hard disk installation of Belenix. > > currently, there is a perl script which asks minimal questions to the user to > dump belenix to the hard disk (quite similar to installing knoppix). > > going forward, what kind of installer would you like ? (under ideal > conditions) > > - GUI installer > - console installer > - manual installer > - all of the above ? :=) > > > GUI installer: > is there any existing installing program that we can port? > if not, perhaps we could start a small project to write one. > > console installer: > do we continue to maintain the current installer ? > would anyone be interested in having a complete curses based installer > similar to debian/*bsd ? > > manual installer: > provide all the tools and d/l the necessary/required packages from the net > (think gentoo) > > any volunteers to help with the installation part of belenix ? i have a few > ideas that i could mail across later. > I think both GUI and Curses based UIs are desired. > also, will we be having 2 versions of belenix - a live-cd version and an > installable version or just a single live-cd with an option to install to > hard disk/usb/wateva ? > Too much work to have 2 versions. An installable livecd is good enough and the SFE repository can be the source package repository to begin with. We need a binary package repository later. Regards, Moinak. > AnanthS > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
