On 18 Jun 2008, at 04:45, Shawn Walker wrote: > 2008/6/17 Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 3. Either send us the URL to your private depot (running in readonly >> mode if public!), or use pkgrecv and GNU tar to collect your >> package in transaction form--and send us a URL to that file. > > This makes me wonder if pkgrecv shouldn't just provide this as an > option for you.
Nod, but doesn't that effectively give us a distributable package file format? I thought another file format was being planned? I'd also suggest the use of /usr/bin/tar instead of GNU tar, if only to prevent the howls from people who think GNU tar is broken. >> Thoughts? > > It seems reasonable to me. I'm reminded of the need for a web > interface to help streamline this process. Uh, I should get to that > soon :-) It seems reasonable to me too. I've got most of the following done already, and raring to share: pkg:/GNUemacs (with GTK) pkg:/GITcore pkg:/CPANdigest-sha1 pkg:/CPANdigest-hmac pkg:/CPANuri pkg:/CPANconvert-asn1 pkg:/CPANperl-ldap pkg:/CPANsub-uplevel pkg:/CPANarray-compare pkg:/CPANtree-dag_node pkg:/CPANtest-exception pkg:/CPANtest-simple pkg:/CPANtest-warn pkg:/CPANnet-ssleay pkg:/CPANio-socket-ssl Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
