On 7/10/07, Eric Boutilier <ericb at opensolaris.org> wrote: > 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.
Right. The softwares currently bundled into Belenix is itself one such list since those bundled here have gone through multiple iterations of feedback from many users. > 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. > The ones in Belenix have already been built and hence the kind of patching required is known. But there are going to be updates to the software versions. Some cleaning up of the way patching is done might be required. These are fruits that are almost scraping the ground ! > 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! > Yes :) regards Shiv
