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On Apr 21, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: > Hello all, > > May I ask some questions on how I could help with integration > of popular software with illumos and/or openindiana? > > Some of my bugs/rfes deal with "I'd like to have such-and-such > software in OI repo out of the box"; recent examples include NUT > and OpenVPN. Say I did this and tested on my systems - compiled, > made SMF methods, maybe some lower-level OS changes (i.e. shutdown > handlers for NUT, drivers/tuning for OpenVPN), and personally > liked the result. > > Then what? How does it get upstream for everybodys benefit? > What do I send upstream, and how, and to which upstream? > > Should I make some packaging descriptors (SVR4/IPS)? > Should there be some specialized build manifests (i.e. spec-files > like in RedHat SRPMs for automated rpm-builds?) > What is the product I should try to push into the source code > repository, and which one - illumos-userland, openindiana-userland, > or are these two particular projects (NUT, OpenVPN) "lowlevel" > enough to get into the main ON gate (at least partially)? > > I guess the upstream project won't need the binaries, but rather > the source code (original 3rd party code and my OI-integration > patches to it)? > > I roamed around the wikis, but either I missed the page where > such contribution procedure is outlined, or it is not there =) > > Thanks, > //Jim Klimov > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev