Dermot McCluskey wrote: > We are gathering requirements for the next phase of development of pkgbuild, > the tool we use to build Solaris' GNOME Desktop from RPM-like spec files. > > If there are particular features that you would like to see included, but are > not > listed below, please reply to this thread giving details. Once we have > defined > the requirements, we will be looking for assistance from community members > to implement them. For details on pkgbuild see: > http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/ > > Enhancements we are already considering: > - support parallel builds (not just make -j, but building several spec files > in parallel) > - optionally installing to, and resolving dependencies from, a prototype area > (instead of "/", eg possibly with zones or FUSE-type file system) > - interactive debugging > - optionally include/exclude source patches from command-line > - spec-file "lint" (eg warn about missing defaults) > - support Solaris 8 & 9 > - better macro support (eg multi-line macros) > - missing RPM features (eg "%if foo == bar") > - "exclude" modifier in %files (eg "%{_libdir}/* %exclude *.a") >
Recursive dependency resolution download and build when using pkgtool. This will bring this one step closer to Gentoo emerge. Optionally maybe even something like pkgtool build World aka emerge World. Regards, Moinak. > Dermot > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
