While personally all of my OpenIndianan/Solaris servers use pkgsrc (it rocks!), I personally think effort would be best spent fixing the existing packages in pkgsrc upstream. I know the DragonflyBSD devs do this, that way they automatically benefit from changes upstream.
-Dustin On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Mads Worsøe Duun <[email protected]> wrote: > In the wiki section > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Addon+Consolidations?focusedCommentId=4883385#comment-4883385it > says a BSD-ports buildsystem will be added later to Openindiana. I > very > much like this idea, but has anyone thought about witch system to use? Will > it be a system designed from scratch, or will an already existing system be > ported? > > Personally I vote for NetBSD's pkgsrc. It already bootstraps and partially > works on Openindiana. Partially because a lot of packages will not build, > because of missing Solaris patches. In the future, a tool that convert > packages from pkgsrc to IPS could be developed. > > Cheers > Mads Worsøe Duun > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
