Martin Bochnig wrote:
> I thought of it only because of Moinaks auto-builder (and my own
> insufficient steps towards that direction a year ago).
> Not combining consolidations for development purposes, just for
> allowing external distributors to build _everything_ in one rush,
> without interaction and during sleep.
That would be a multi-day build, and adding X would still leave massive
amounts outside (SFW, GNOME, Mozilla, etc.).
> I still do not understand all aspects of how Sun does this internally.
>
> Every consolidation generates packages individually and just delivers
> them into a spool area?
Yes.
> Is there no automated A-to-Z tool, that compiles everything at once
> and then automatically combines the binary packages into a distro via
> distro-constructor (or in the past: How was it done for SXCE?).
No. SXCE is built by combining the packages each consolidation delivers
to the common WOS "dock". OpenSolaris is currently built by converting
the SVR4 packages in that dock to IPS packages, with some transformations
along the way (the distro-import section of the IPS gate) - after the
SXCE builds stop, consolidations will start converting to delivering IPS
packages to a common repository.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
