On 7/15/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote: > First of all this is an excellent initiative driven by Shiv. Thanks for > bringing this up :-) > > For the past month or so, I've been exploring the delights of pkgbuild > on opensolaris. This is possibly the best answer we have right now to > apt-get or emerge. Just as an example: I compiled, installed Wine and > played RoadRash on solaris - It took about 3 commands and worked flawlessly. > > The SFE repository currently has ~200 spec files ranging from Admin > Tools to games. And considering that the debian/stable has 20000+ > packages, we have long way to go ! Not to mention tools like apt-get, > dpkg and synaptic. >
Wow, I would definitely like a guide to using pkgbuild (with a demo inlcuding any prior configurations that need to be done in the beginning) during the hackathon. I missed the BOSUG meet where this was discussed. If someone would go through the process of creating a spec file in real time for a particular software not yet in the repository, it would be a great learning experience for all. Regards Anil
