On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, TJ Yang wrote: > Previously, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > > > The project goal states > > > > "... provide OpenSolaris OS a modern package > > age management system." > > > > What will be the right wording of above sentence ?
TJ, First let me backtrack a bit. In my first reply I didn't realize that whenever you say "Package Management System" (PMS) you mean a system that encompasses _both_ a build-system and a binary package management, auto-update system. I tend to think of these things separately. To me, a "PMS" is _only_ a binary package management, auto-update system. Furthermore, in my view these two technologies should be _evaluated_ separately. Last Thursday, for example, I posted this blurb on my weblog: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=edification_endeavor_solaris_foss_build (An HTML-to-text version is also included below.) It explains how I've decided to plumb the depths of the JDS team's CBE/pkgbuild, which is and example of a project that focuses strictly on build-system technology. In other words, CBE/pkgbuild leaves the development of binary package management up to other projects (such as pkg-get, Sun Update Connection, TWW, pkgsrc/gensolpkg, or any other system that does SVR4 binary package management.) Now back to your question: > What will be the right wording of above sentence ? I'd suggest an initial goal statement something like this: "... Evaluate and endorse a standard build system(s) for OpenSolaris." Then this separate goal statement: "... Evaluate and endorse a standard binary package management, auto-update system(s) for OpenSolaris." I would also put the following limit on both: "Only systems that support the Solaris SV4R package standard qualify for evaluation." --Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [HTML-to-text version of weblog entry] Subject: Edification endeavor: Solaris FOSS build system I've decided to teach myself how to build Solaris [FOSS][1] packages using the JDS system which is based on [pkgbuild][2] and the [CBE][3].* Here's what I did today: - Did a fresh install of Solaris 10 on [this rig][4]. Chose "Entire Distribution", "[DHCP][5]", "[DNS][6]", among other things (see [Solaris 10 installation][7]), and everything came up fine. The box has an [rtls][8] NIC, which configured fine, and which I connected to a [network hub][9] on my [DSL][10] setup. - Installed the CBE, Sun Studio Compilers and required patches per [these instructions][11]. ---- * The motivation to do this came in part from the advent of the JDS team's [desktop community plans][12] and the related [getting-started info][11] that [Glynn Foster][13] posted on the new [desktop community site][14]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS [2]: http://pkgbuild.sf.net [3]: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/jds/building/#jds-cbe [4]: http://www.productquest.net/coprs4ce24gh.html [5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol [6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS [7]: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0544/6mgbagb1b?a=view [8]: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5177/6mbbc4g9g?a=view [9]: http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=3973484 [10]: http://speakeasy.net/home/ [11]: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/jds/building/ [12]: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1079&tstart=0 [13]: http://www.gnome.org/~gman/ [14]: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop URL: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=edification_endeavor_solaris_foss_build _______________________________________________ RSS to mail gateway _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
