Dave Miner wrote: > 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. >
Great. We will be introducing that one once we are done implementing non root install. Matt
