Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an idea for a quick-n-dirty approach: In theory (I think) one > could take all the files contained in all the Xorg packages from the > latest Nevada (Solaris Express) build and slap them onto a SchilliX > box. The nice thing is, as with the rest of SchilliX, these files are > already under an open-source license.
Since last night we have a working aperture driver which could make it possible - but I believe we will be also able to compile X from scratch. > Then, if that worked, you would only need to build Window Managers and > X clients, many of which I know build cleanly on Solaris with pkgsrc. > > BTW... I'm interested in your work with pkgsrc on Solaris. I've played > around with it a bit too. See: > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=unix_from_scratch_table_of > > I find the whole design a bit hairball'ish though and wonder if maybe > Joerg Schilling's endeavor to start with a clean slate and with Solaris > as the prime target platform (his SPS project) is maybe the way to go. > It seems to me that an ideal solution might be to have SPS as the fetch > and auto-build system combined with either an open-source version of > the Solaris packaging tools (pkgadd/pkgrm) that's been enhanced to know > how to update packages; or an open-source version of the new Sun Update > Connection which is based on the Solaris patch system. I did already do it with SchilliX-0.1 and created tar archives for each source package from the result. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
