On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 01:29 +0200, Thomas Wagner wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:09:43AM +0530, Ananth Shrinivas wrote: > [...] > > Slightly off topic: How does IPS affect the SFE repository and the > > pkgbuild tools ? As I understand IPS can import SVR4 packages. But if > > it has frozen specs for packaging metadata and data, should pkgbuild > > be enhanced to generate "native" IPS format packages ? > > I am eager to help out with implementing these or other ideas. > > Ananth > > near future: > pkgbuild should be able to feed a personal/local_site repository > with IPS packages or trigger the import. This would have two > advantages: IPS-testing could be extended on non-Indiana packages > and Indiana instantly could receive missing software we already > have available in the SFE repository.
Actually, I'm working on building SFE on the indiana prototype (slim_install). I've got >500 packages built already and I'm fixing up stuff as I go. It'd be even better to generate native ipkg packages and publish them directly. Laca
