* Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-17 15:37]: > On Friday 17 February 2006 01:19 pm, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:05:05PM -0800, Robert wrote: > > > Now when Solaris Express/Community puts out new builds (and so does > > > OpenSolaris :-) ) all the time; What is the relationship between > > > theese when it comes to updates? > > > > Solaris 10 Updates may contain code originally introduced in > > OpenSolaris but there are no Updates made for either Solaris Express > > or OpenSolaris (OpenSolaris isn't a product, so there's nothing to > > update - the code is continually changing as active development > > proceeds). > > Let's ask the question this way. > > Is there any possibility that we'll be seeing source control on opensolaris, > so that it would be possible to putback to the opensolaris gate, rather than > go through Solaris? > > This is something I want to see, so could be considered on my agenda, but > without source control it seems everyone has their hands tied. > > Not pointing this question directly at you Keith, I know there are many > things > that could need to happen that would allow this scenario to happen, and that > need to. Just posing this question because we seem to be hinged on source > control to really be able to manage the source in the opensolaris community.
Numerous threads in tools-discuss deal with the selection and deployment of SCM solutions for opensolaris.org. I am unsure how Robert's question relates to yours; the answer I might have given would be "Express is Sun's unsupported distribution of OpenSolaris plus other pieces; Updates are patches to the previously shipped supported distribution." In terms of source, that means an integration into OpenSolaris may also be backported by Sun to its patch repositories for its prior releases, although the effort associated with and the contents of that backport may not be identical to that expended or committed to the development repository. At present, I do not believe the other distributions are maintaining patch repositories against their previous releases, so this notion of backports is specific to Solaris. It is very possible that those distribution teams might choose to do so, as they acquire larger user bases. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
