Last weekend I blogged about what I've been working on since the
OpenSolaris Launch.
The changes will have more impact on Sun employees than on the rest of
the community, but it won't be entirely transparent externally. Of
course, it should all just work, and I don't foresee that external
developers will have to change what they do to get a complete built.
But if you're curious about what goes on with a build, or you want to
know why I'm always saying I'm too busy to get to things :-), you might
want to check out the blog.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/kupfer?entry=on_the_road_to_nightly
There's also some discussion about what's needed before we can start
doing nightly updates.
One of the things I touched on in the blog entry was that the
closed-bins tarball will be handled differently with the new setup.
Right now a few critical libraries are copied into the proto area when
you build usr/src/lib, but the binaries are otherwise ignored unless you
use Install.sh or makebfu. In the new approach, the closed binaries
will get copied into the proto area at the start of the build.
Install.sh and makebfu will need no special support for the closed
binaries. I'm planning to post notes and webrev for the Install.sh
changes, hopefully later this week.
mike
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