As I reported a while ago in
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2601 , I'd love to get a newer
gimp-print (which BTW got renamed to gutenprint around 2006 ) in order to be
able to print. Are there any pointers on how could I cleanly upgrade gimp-print
to gutenprint?
BTW, are there any pointers to documentation on how to make a new IPS package?
I come from the pretty simple ebuilds from gentoo (where most of the times
renaming the ebuild is quite enough, and they're quite self-describing), though
I've also struggled with .deb packages.
I find welcome additions to IPS would be:
- Having a "core" set of packages more minimal. Right now it doesn't matter if
I remove most of gnome and locales; when I image-upgrade they get reinstalled.
Therefore even if I uninstalled SUNWgimpprint (dunnow if I can without breaking
half of my printing subsystem) next image-upgrade would surely get it
reinstalled, and therefore it would overwrite my files. Installing in
/usr/local from source is more or less a solution, but I don't really believe
it will work so easily
- Having some tutorials on how to create / modify IPS packages (is there an
equivalent to "apt-get source" to check how the package is made?). I'd
personally try to package bzr and apcupsd (as I just installed them from
source).
- Having, in general, more upgraded packages (gcc 3.4? c'mon...)
- Having the option to install a package without getting a whole repository up.
Like in "dpkg -i package.deb".
I guess I don't really grok the image-upgrade thing, coming from a linux
world... It gets compared to dist-upgrade, but it seems to me as not so similar
(were I to install in a similar way to dpkg -i, in case it's available, would
it get overwritten when image-upgraded? How does the version resolution work
here?)
I'd rather install the less possible outside the package management system, in
related news, in order to be able to uninstall a package...
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