> 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-dis > cuss/2008-October/date.html
That looks approximately like what I was thinking of. How generic is it? Can it build e.g. Indiana as well as your distro? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
