* Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-18 02:18]: > > Why not directly utilize SFE and modify pkgbuild to directly > > deliver to a pkg server? That would yield a number of benefits, > > it would allow for periodic bulk builds of all spec files, > > thereby also increase the quality of SFE, and all build recipies > > would be accessible in one central repository. Obviously some > > hardware would be needed for this. I think someone has proposed > > this before, it kind of resembles what the *BSDs are doing. > > I guess I thought I had posited SFE as the prime contributing group: > > > > ... a "contrib" repository, with the largest component being > > > binary packages from the recipes in the spec-files-extra or the > > > F/OSS package base projects > > > > > > http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/ > > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkgbase/ > > > > > > (depending on what Laca and company say, of course). > > These are SFE and "newer SFE-like thing"(?), respectively. I wasn't > certain that a contrib/ repository needed to be exclusively SFE-built, > however.
Well, as I already wrote, IMO it would have advantages, people wouldn't have to provide their own pkg server, builds would be reproducible and more transparent if they came from a publicly accessible repository and bulk builds would increase the quality of SFE by making broken recipes more visible. Have a look at FreeBSD's ports or NetBSD's pkgsrc, they're doing quite well with this model. -- Guido Berhoerster _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
