On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Magnus Forsberg wrote:
> [ ... ]
> I see there is already a disussion about this in:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=953&tstart=0
>
> The most interesting part is to have a standard build system, not just a
> package system...
I agree -- mostly because there would be way too many negative
ramifications of going with anything but the Solaris SVR4 package
system (at least for now anyway).
> Seems you're looking at:
> * deb
> * pkgsrc (implemented by pkgsrc system)
> * portage
> * rpm (implemented by the openpkg system)
> * solaris packaging (implemented by Sun, Blastwave, and Sunfreeware)
> * tww (implemented by tww system)
>
> OpenPKG spec files combined with pkg-tools seems like a good alternative for
> me at the moment. We'll see where this leads, it will be interesting.
If you're experimenting with OpenPKG and pkg-tools, I'd suggest
checking out pkgbuild and the JDS common build environment too because
they are also based on the RPM spec-file framework.
http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/jds/building/#jds-cbe
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1406&tstart=0
--ericb
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