Jason King wrote: > 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?
Open a ticket under distribution -> packaging as an enhancement. I'm not actually certain what the course of action will be from there. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
