- 1-click/hands-off setup for the build-environment

- documentation how to integrate pkgbuild/pkgtool/common-build-environment
  and SunStudio into a Distribution (think indiana/belenix/all others).

- pkgbuild --parseable-softwarelist
  to feed this output into a local Index in e.g. a Software-Selection
  Menu to the end-user/Administrator

- relocatable packages, e.g. student installes his own copy of program
  SFExchat into his $HOME
  this would make the Admin-intervention obsolete (think: Workstation-Pool)
  he/she selects the software from a Software-Selection Menu

- instant-build
  Software-Selection Menu provides un-build Software, if selected
  dependencies are resolved and Sources are fetched and build
  instantly

- click-and-build URL support. 
  User clicks on a URL on the Web/chat/Email and pkgbuild
  does an instant build

Regards,
Thomas

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:50:35AM -0700, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> 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/
> 
> One thing that might be interesting, is how pkgbuild fits in with IPS - a 
> build
> and publish as a repository, rather than necessarily a set of packages. It 
> could
> be an awesome way of delivering the Vermillion unstable in the future.


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