On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Perfect. Slight suggestion (I'm trying it out right now with an ON build for >>a >bugfix I've taken far too long to get taken care of) -- if DNS isn't going >>to be >used, could at least /etc/host entries be entered for certain >>opensolaris servers >(at least hg.opensolaris.org)? Since many projects are >>hosting their code there, >it'd make it slightly easier (I'm sure most can >>workaround it, but I'm all for least >surprise) for pulling the code over to >>build. > > Haven't had reason to try it myself yet, but wouldn't it be cool to have > a relatively simple menu script that would fetch most of what one needed > (consolidations from svn or hg, onbld, etc) to complete the build environment > for all the usual stuff? And maybe even have it generate a script with the > needed commands to build that? That way, someone doesn't have to waste > time doing the procedural stuff; they just select what they want to work on > (which fetches the files and readies everything for them), edit away, > and run the generated build script (which takes care of environment, knowing > the appropriate next-level command to run, etc). Maybe I'm underestimating > the difficulty, but I don't _think_ that, at least for most of the more common > cases (ON and project branches, X, JDS, SFW), that would be all that difficult > to do.
Richard, it seems as if you were talking about the Natamar distro bulk. Its purpose is exactly this. Maybe you didn't see (all of) my earlier mails to distribution-discuss and other lists: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/distribution-discuss/2008-October/date.html Cheers, %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
