On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Alan Coopersmith<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> The package generation step should be kept sufficiently separate, >> as it is today, to easily plug-in other package mechanisms. > > I'm planning on removing the SVR4 package definitions and the script > to build them from our gate when we do the move, and am considering > having a 'ips-package' target in the Makefiles to generate the ips > packages from the Makefiles instead of a separate script to simplify > things from the current gate build, but am still planning on having > everything installed to a proto area from which you can generate > packages in any format you see fit, since that's still needed to > bootstrap the later phases of the build with the headers and libraries > built in the earlier phases.
Yes this will be good. > > (Despite certain people's encouragement, I'm not planning on throwing > the entire build system away and switching to spec files for instance. > I do have limits for how many moving parts I'm willing to try changing > at once in the engine while the bus is still driving down the highway.) The current Makefile system is fine. Migrating that to spec files will be a lot of work. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
