> You should be able to build the LiveCD using the > distribution constructor, if > you had a complete set of packages (so you can do > this for 134 now, but not > yet for later builds). I also don't understand why > you say you have no > installer when the Caiman project installers are all > fully open.
Hi Alan, many thanks for responding. Good to hear the Caiman installer is fully open, perhaps there's less to do than I initially thought. > Building the packages is probably the biggest > technical challenge, especially > since right now a bunch of packages are still > converted from SVR4 originals that > aren't publicly released - but since the results are > released under licenses > that allow redistribution, you can use the existing > ones until you develop the > ability to build replacements. *nods* > Fortunately, building the 4 biggest consolidations > (ON, SFW, JDS, X) will give > you a majority of the packages from the "WOS" (i.e. > the bits that used to be > installed by the SXCE installers - not including the > traditionally "unbundled" > bits also in the repos like NetBeans, OpenOffice, > Studio compilers, etc.) and > the majority of the sources to those consolidations > are open. (100% in the case > of X & SFW.) ON, X, & JDS can be built directly > into IPS package format today > from the externally released sources, leaving SFW & > the smaller consolidations > for running through the SVR4->IPS conversion process. Thanks again for this feedback. Do you know if the SVR4->IPS conversion tool(s) are publicly available/open source? Do you foresee any issue with the community producing a distribution that tracks OpenSolaris/Solaris Next in a binary and package compatible way?* Are there any challenges other than the above that would present a major roadblock? *(Obviously the community understands Solaris is a trademark and derived distributions are not allowed to use Solaris as a constituent part of the name). Lastly, do you think this is something Oracle are likely to object to or react to in a negative way? I understand you're not able to speak on Oracles behalf, I'm more curious about your feelings on this as a community member. Cheers, Alasdair -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
