On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:37 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > > I'd totally encourage people to try it out and start creating their own > > spec files with it. Just as a bonus, I've attached 2 *new* spec files to > > start you off, Emacs and XChat - all a developer needs, right? Hopefully > > over the next couple of weeks we can put together a repository of spec > > files and patches that people can grab to build their own Solaris > > packages for.
I did some reading today on rpm, pkgbuild, pkgsrc, pkg-get, apt-get, portage, etc. Found some great stuff on Eric Boutilier's blog as well as Glynn's. It's all left me wondering... Obviously Solaris uses SVR4 packages and has mature tools to add, remove and patch them. What's the idea for OpenSolaris, or is it going to be left up to individual distributions? I guess Nexenta is the only one of the 3 distros so far to attempt a package management system other than pkgadd. I really like what I've seen so far of the pkgbuild utility with respect to downloading, compiling, packaging and installing source. And the possibilities for distributing spec files are obvious, although keeping up with versions of the software within still seems like a manual process unless I'm missing something. I suppose my question is rhetorical more than anything else. Is the OpenSolaris team considering a means of distributing something like a spec file as kind of a meta-package management system i.e. portage? Or is that strictly distribution territory? Any discussion welcome :) best, Scott
