Hey, On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 10:54 +0530, Ananth Shrinivas wrote: > For the past month or so, I've been exploring the delights of pkgbuild > on opensolaris. This is possibly the best answer we have right now to > apt-get or emerge. Just as an example: I compiled, installed Wine and > played RoadRash on solaris - It took about 3 commands and worked flawlessly.
I'm very glad to hear that (: I keep saying: if people find something that is not easy to do or is not logical, let me know and I'll try to fix it. > The SFE repository currently has ~200 spec files ranging from Admin > Tools to games. And considering that the debian/stable has 20000+ > packages, we have long way to go ! Not to mention tools like apt-get, > dpkg and synaptic. Actually, more than 400 spec files, AFAIK. If we're aiming for 20000+ we've gotta invent a better structure and real processes. I'm looking forward to having to deal with that problem (: Laca > If you have been complaining that your favorite BitTorrent client or > Media Player doesn't work on solaris, join the hackathon. Maybe we will > even port OpenArena and have a round of fragfest in between. W00t ! > > Cheers, > Ananth > > S h i v wrote: > > I have one participant expressing interest offline in participating. > > I have sent across a mail to the campus ambassadors here to reach out > > to some of the students. > > > > About 4-5 participants in all would be just right to initiate this. > > If you have not responded and would like to participate, do so immediately. > > > > Manish has been working on the kde front, and I am hoping this work > > can continue and taken to completion as part of this event. Manish? > > The recently ported GNU parted is another piece of software which the > > developers should find it of interest to bundle it as a solaris > > package. > > > > regards > > Shiv > > > > ps: The source code base that was used to build the latest release of > > Belenix is now available with me. The list of Belenix softwares that > > already have SFE available and those that need authoring is compiled. > > > > > > On 7/8/07, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote: > >> As most of you are aware, Belenix currently does not have packaging > >> support. This is intended to be included in one of the future > >> releases. > >> Once packaging support is available the huge bunch of softwares need > >> to be made available in the form of SVR4 packages. The SFE (rpm spec > >> file like) based approach is well suited for this. > >> > >> In one of the earlier discussions in bosug there was considerable > >> interest expressed for organizing a hackathon. > >> > >> I would like to propose to have one with a goal to realize all > >> softwares as "SVR4 Packages on Belenix". > >> > >> *Please respond with your thoughts about the same*. > >> > >> People from parts of the world outside Bangalore: > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> It makes it easier for people staying closeby to participate. Incase > >> there is interest for participation from parts of the world outside > >> Bangalore, *please do respond* expressing your thoughts and also with > >> suggestions as to how it can be planned to make the participation > >> happen. > >> > >> I am putting down a few thoughts below regarding the scope, duration > >> and participation. These are points only to trigger the discussion and > >> the way it turns need not be anything like the below. > >> > >> Scope: > >> ====== > >> [1] Primary goal : Author spec files for all the softwares not in SVR4 > >> packaging format in Belenix > >> > >> [2] Optional Level1 : Write an apt-get kind of tool to pull binary > >> packages and install on the system. (a new tool or adapt existing tool > >> such as pkg-get from blastwave) > >> > >> [3] Optional Level2 : Build a gtk frontend to provide a GUI front end > >> like Synaptic Manager. We may limit the scope here to display list of > >> packages (with dependancies?) from the localhost. > >> > >> Duration: > >> ======== > >> 1 Day = ~6hours > >> > >> Who can participate: > >> ================ > >> * Basic level of comfort with shell environment and Solaris > >> environment is all that is required > >> * Anything beyond this (such as gtk, rpm specs, ksh/python > >> programming, etc) would be a plus. > >> (Required additional technical inputs will be provided for people to > >> take things forward from this point) > >> > >> If you have reached till here, thanks for reading through. I would > >> look forward to your comments. > >> > >> thanks & regards > >> Shiv > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > belenix-discuss mailing list > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
