On 8/8/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Palowoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is true. If we look at the roadmap the install and > > admin tools are scheduled for next year around April/May > > timeframe. It's proably better to hold off until than > > until the patch management can architectually include > > those stable interfaces. > > What I believe is important is that we need to take into > account that packaging software only makes sense if we may really > use it. > > Just imaging what would happen if tomorrow the redistribution > rights for pkgadd and freinds would be given. We could not use it. > > Why? > > Well, Compiling OpenSolaris does not produce packages but > 8 CPIO archives. > > If I install SchilliX and add pkgadd, I still cannot use most > blastwave packages because blastwave packages contein dependencies > to SUNW packages that seem to be missing on SchilliX because there > is no package database. > > Jörg >
These are the sort of things that we need to address. I am working on a new Subversion repository for all the software at Blastwave right now. If we also implement a build system then we can move towards a source set that excludes SUNW dependencies that are currently not open and gradually work towards a better way to build a complete OS which will include all these other software packages. A grand leap I know, and certainly not about to happen overnight. Any step taken today towards an open build system would be a step in the right direction. Dennis Clarke Director and Admin for blastwave.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
