On 10/17/07, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> wrote: > > 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. >
Will pkgbuild output be bound to a particular package format (IPS). I have seen that pkgbuild code already has logic for generating an rpm on a linux box instead of a SVR4 package. Haven't tried it though. I am not sure how flexible the pkgbuild design is, but based on some input from the macros file, if pkgbuild can call different libs/functions to generate a package of specified format it might be useful. The lib/function that gets called should be pluggable/sourceable dynamically so that the burden of writing & maintaining the support for different package format doesn't lie with the author of pkgbuild. IPS & SVR4 can be the default supported formats. Makes sense ? Sounds fancy ? -Shiv
