Hi, I wanted to apologize for the delay in reply to this. More inline below...
UNIX admin wrote: >> UNIX admin wrote: >> >>> I'd like to start with making SUNW packages for >>> >> PHP. Which steps >> >>> must I take to formalize this? >>> >> PHP (5.2.4) packages are already available, starting >> from b76 >> (although b79 has the latest, including the MySQL & >> Apache support, so >> for experimenting, best to start with b79). >> >> We'll be updating it to 5.2.5 in the coming month or >> so (and, I hope, >> cleaning up the packaging a bit). >> > > I meant, I'd like to take ownership of / be responsible for delivering > SUNWphp* packages in OpenSolaris. > > Surely packaging is also something that can be offloaded "outside of the Sun > firewall"? > Both of the lead engineers (Jyri Virkki and Arvind Srinivasan) who own this kind of work for the project are actually out on vacation. I too was out when these emails were posted, and I'm just now getting back to going through all of the old email. Many apologies! I'm sure we'd welcome the help and Jyri/Arvind can probably figure out best to do that. Having said that, right now all of the package building is pretty tied to the SFWNV consolidation if you're talking about SysV packages. For the OpenSolaris image packaging system, at least in the short term, I think we'll get that "for free" since the project Indiana folks are consuming all of the SUNW packages (including PHP) and translating them into ips format for the project indiana hosted repository. I bet longer term there may be some changes to how we do that, but I don't think we've really thought that all the way through. Up until the end of December, the big push was to get all of the functionality reviewed and into build 79. Whatever we end up with, that package coordination would need to be done with other components (like Apache). For instance, I'd discussed "clusters" like AMP or APP or AMR with the ipkg folks and they'd thought about it, but have had more pressing business to work on at the moment. I'm sure Jyri or Arvind will be able to add more to the discussion when they return. Again, sorry for the delayed response. - Matt -- Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Solutions Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Global Systems Practice http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ email: matt.ingenthron at sun.com Phone: 310-242-6439
