On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Hi All, > > Just an idea: The current Companion CD framework based on > Makefiles looks a little unwieldy and maintenance overhead to > me. The spec file based approach using pkgbuild can be > maintained with much less effort and does not require dealing > with hard to fathom implicit hierarchical Makefiles and > rules. > > Merging the pkgbuild spec-files-extra with the Companion CD > project will provide an easily maintained excellent > repository of latest FOSS packages for OpenSolaris. This can > be easily combined with automatic dependency resolution. I am > discussing with the students who ported Gparted and they are > very interested in building a Synaptic - like GUI for > OpenSolaris. In fact they have some "package transaction" > ideas that will take this to the next level beyond Synaptic. > > Regards, > Moinak.
Hi Moinak, Laca proposed something similar a couple months ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.general/18953 The project was approved, is called pkgbase, but is currently in the site development stage (aka a "hidden" project.) Eric
