2008/6/27 Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dennis Clarke wrote: >> 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. >> > > The contrib repository is basically what you're talking about; there's > been a bunch of discussion about it on pkg-discuss and it will be open soon.
I might add that Stephen has already put it up here: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/ There's nothing to look at yet, but there will be soon. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
