Keith M Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at sun.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:36:19PM +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> > Absolutely agree on this. Having the ability for all distributions to pull
> > from
> > the same repository with a different set of recipes seems like the most
> > ideal
> > way to share our work. I'd very much advocate for this approach, and
> > certainly
> > where I saw Indiana heading to along with the distro constructor work.
>
> A consequence of this approach is that what gets built can't depend on
> *anything* about the build system, and the tools *must* completely
> cleanse the environment. Otherwise two people can pull the same
> snapshot from a magic repository but build very different (and
> incompatible) binaries. This is why we've been trying to sell you JDS
> folk on the proto area and self-contained makefiles. Sadly, even ON
> doesn't quite get it right - it uses the non-ON components on the
> build machine.
The main problem with ON is that it is defined as an inconsistent entity.
If you like to compile ON, you need more than just ON to get a useful result.
Is this what you like to say?
J?rg
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