Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:

> >> Which is why it was completely thrown out and Userland started with a
> >> new design from scratch.
> > 
> > But as this did not exist before Spring 2010, I asume that the new system 
> > is 
> > not able to create native Svr4 packages.
>
> Correct.  Userland was designed from the ground up for IPS, since that was the
> only packaging system in use when it was created.

So there would be a need to add the missing code. The important question here 
would be whether this is an open project that accepts enhancements to support 
the native packaging system and that would support to then change the related 
meta data the same way the IPS meta data is changed.

Jörg

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