2008/6/27 Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kristian Rink writes: >>> Talking about OpenSolaris though, I (honestly) don't see much use in >>> keeping a vast bunch of different builds of the same libraries >>> maintained - who should possibly spend time and effort doing so? Maybe >>> in terms of OpenSolaris, people should leave aside the "self-contained" >>> blastwave idea and focus on maintaining _one_ large IPS repository with >>> a wider range of applications available rather than a bunch of >>> fragmented ones with wagonloads of redundant binaries... Just my $0.02 >>> on that of course... :) >> >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I thought that's exactly what the >> OpenSolaris distribution (and IPS repository) folks were attempting to >> do. > > Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking. > > However, I think we need to have a more coordinated method that allows > the unwashed masses ( people like myself ) to drop packages into a > not-quite-enterprise-class repo ( like > http://blastwave.network.com:10000 ) and also to promote packages > upwards to the pkg.opensolaris.org world. The Blastwave stuff is easy > to contribute to but the pkg.opensolaris.org repo is shrouded in > mystery and magic words like ARC etc.
There's a new /contrib repository that is currently being evaluated and a process established to get into. It should be much lighter-weight than the main pkg.opensolaris.org repository. I would encourage you to participate in that discussion on pkg-discuss. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
