On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 09:13:18PM +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > > Adding additional packages is a different story and we are > currently working on the procedures and infrastructure to provide > an addon consolidation (see > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Addon+Consolidations)
I'm very pleased to see that. It should allow many people to contribute to openindiana, and do so independantly. I'm packaging a product now, into both SVR4 and IPS forms, with the intent that it will run on Solaris 10, Solaris 11 Express, and Openindiana, for both SPARC and x86. One thing I don't favour is installing packages from the Extra consolidation into a unique directory, /usr/oie in this document. That doesn't prevent name collisions, but just delays them. Once you add /usr/oie/bin to your PATH, duplicate names will be hidden anyway. I'd prefer to install them in standard locations, and to eliminate duplicates explicitly. > That sounds great, if you want to contribute packages today, the > best solution would be to add tem to SFE > (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/) since it > allows others to easily build your contributed package and since > SFE is likely to become one of our "upstream" projects where we > might import packages from at a later time. Is this only a repository of spec files, or is it an IPS repository too? I would like to see an independant repository of IPS packages. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Group- -Computer and Network Services- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
