On 08/16/12 13:37, Philip Brown wrote:
What's the current state of affairs, for non-oracle people who wish to make their software available in Solaris IPS format?
...
If you guys are interested in third parties taking the IPS format seriously, you need to give them an avenue to easily distribute in that format.
pkg(5) does.
I personally have a program that I'd like to make available via IPS, but I'm not going to spend another $40 a month to upgrade my domain hosting to something that allows custom demons to be run, just for the privilege of distributing something that doesnt make me any money.
...
Have I missed something?
You can freely distribute your packages in a pkg(5) archive file (.p5p). That doesn't require a special daemon. pkg(5) archive files are essentially PAX tar archives that leverage PAX's special metadata and contain a special index file to make operations on the archive faster. They contain a complete pkg(5) repository in a tarball so can contain an arbitrary number of packages.
If file-based distribution isn't an option, then Apache can be configured using mod_rewrite to serve package data directly from a repository.
A "drop-in template" for that configuration is not yet available. But experienced Apache administrators can figure out how to do it from the internal template in use already:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/src/util/apache2/sysrepo/sysrepo_httpd.conf.mako -Shawn _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
