HI,
The topic mentioned above is quite interesting and we would like to
contribute for it under your guidence.....
By,
Komala and Jayanthi.
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
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