On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason King wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Jason King wrote: >>>> >>>> Having spent far longer than I'd have liked to get ON building with >>>> Indiana, the idea came about (from Glynn) about possibly creating a >>>> metapackage that would bring in all the redistributable bits on >>>> pkg.opensolaris.org that are needed to build ON (as not all of them >>>> are there in a default install). I know this won't be a 100% solution >>>> since there are a small number of packages needed that aren't >>>> redistributable, but having something for the ones required that are >>>> redistributable would go a long way to easing some of the pain. >>>> >>>> I was curious if anyone else had any thoughts on this? >>> >>> Sounds like a perfect use of the group packages ips provides. See ss-dev >>> or >>> gcc-dev as examples: >>> >>> >>> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/manifest/0/[EMAIL >>> PROTECTED],5.11-0.86:20080821T182448Z >>> >>> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/manifest/0/[EMAIL >>> PROTECTED],5.11-0.86:20080821T182448Z >> >> Can group packages depend upon other group packages, or is it 1 level >> of indirection only? > > n-levels, as far as I know. If it doesn't work, I'd consider it a bug, so > please file one.
Excellent. How should I go about contributing this? Just create a ticket w/ the package information? _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
