On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:08 -0700, ken mays wrote: > Going back to the comments about Nexenta build system:
Nexenta build system == Debian build system The equation above means that NexentaOS following Debian Policy[1] as close as possible. This is done on purpose. Since a) we now can collaborate with Debian community and push our changes upstream; b) we can easily migrate huge amount of packages under NexentaOS APT repository. > 1. What ever happened to running Debian/Linux packages > natively (or by wrapper)?? > > 2. Can we build from Nexenta in providing "Debian" > packages for Schillix, SXCR, and Belenix??? I thought about it. Technically it is possible, but it will require to add GNU personality to the OpenSolaris core of those OSes and provide set of meta-packages which will cover the package name diversions. Sing up on gnusol-devel@gnusolaris.org and we could discuss details a bit more. Since we are seeing demand on somewhat similar task, i.e. Sun personality for GNU/OpenSolaris. > 3. What is being done currently with colleges, > universities, and organizations?? Isn't NetBSD doing > work in providing packages/ports to Solaris using the > NetBSD build system?!? > > We seem to have lost track of the previous work that > was being done to provide Debian packages to Solaris. > There was the Linux/FreeBSD style wrapper for running > Linux packages on Solaris and then the native source > compiles of the same package base used for the Debian > packages (17,000->20,200+ packages). We can take all > of the current GNU source code as a start and see what > builds and doesn't build using the Sun Studio 11 > compiler or GCC. > > That would be a start for someone. Everything else > starts to become personal taste.... > > ~ Ken Mays [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
