The most likely implementation will probably be what the pkgbuild folks are providing, which is very much like rpmbuild.
Fredrich Maney wrote: > I'd much rather see a ports type implementation than an rpm > implementation - particularly if it includes the sources. > > fpsm > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:16:41 +0100 >> Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:11, Duncan Paterson wrote: >>> >>>> What are the chances that this will one day rival apt for selection, >>>> frequency of updates and speed. >>> It will happen a lot quicker once we have repositories in place to >>> which everyone can contribute packages. I get the feeling that'll be >>> a pretty high priority once 2008.11 is out the door, and with a bit of >>> luck it'll be in full swing in time for the 2009.04 release. >> Yes, but is it going to be like the rpm/apt packaging systems, which >> are fine so long as you want exactly what the builder felt like >> providing, or more like bsd-ports inspired systems, which provide >> enough flexibility so that people don't wind up having to build them >> from scratch in order to get applications that meet their needs - and >> which at the older end are much better than apt for selection and >> frequency of updates? -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
