On 7/7/07, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately there is no short option for --short-circuit.
> This option mirrors rpmbuild's --short-circuit option, except that
> rpmbuild doesn't allow to use it with -ba ('cause it's cheating ;)
> but pkgbuild does ('cause it's convenient).
>Thanks. Makes sense to have :-) >From the above inputs I presume short-circuit is available only for pkgbuild and no equivalent available in pkgtool. Hmm...what happens to configurations in .pkgtoolrc? Is pkgbuildmacros recommended for the parameters that are of relevance to both pkgtool & pkgbuildmacros? Can we provide multiple mirror sources in the .spec file (incase primary source is not available) of each of the softwares ? > - my preferred choice is pkgbase, see > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkgbase/ which is where nicely > written, maintained and carefully reviewed spec files should live. > Unfortunately it's currently empty, but that shouldn't discourage > you (; I've been planning to add some for quite a while... > See the process at the pkgbase project pages. Basically, you will > need to post the spec file to pkgbase-dev at opensolaris dot org for > review first. > Will post it there. > - if you don't want to commit to maintain the spec file, you can > always add it to spec-files-extra (aka SFE). Anyone can get > write access there, just let me know you sourceforge user name. > sf.net username : opensoars regards Shiv
