Matt Williamson wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> >> One other thing: I think there's insufficient attention paid to the >> ease of building packages. If we really want ISV's to use packaging >> rather than tarballs or their own scripts or third party installers, I >> think we need a little more than pkgproto, pkgmk and some man pages >> (the developer's guide is only barely beyond that, IMHO). We can >> perhaps say that's out of scope, but should be explicitly recognized >> as a hole in the story. >> > > The JDS Desktop community has a pkgbuild tool that appear to be useful > for building packages. Especially if you need to do it on both Solaris > and Linux. Could these be something to leverage? > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/jds/building/#jds-build-solaris-packages > > >
I would welcome a project that tried to leverage something along those lines. Dave
