On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, S h i v 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.
Sounds like a good idea -- and for lots of low hanging fruit, there are many (probably hundreds of) F/OSS software package not yet in SFE that are known to build on Solaris/OpenSolaris (albeit some with patches). So maybe as a first step(?) it'd be useful to collaboratively put together a list of what those are. Because from there it's easy for people to go start test-compiling and submitting (e.g. on a wiki) each package's build parameters (e.g. build/make/install options) and any existing patches if necessary. Then from there, as you point out, the pkgbuild tools pretty much take care of almost all the rest of the work of getting them into the form of SVR4 packages! Eric > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >
