Paul -- Awesome! The more Solaris ports that use metadata formats the better. Makes sharing go up and duplicated effort go down. And even better, IMO, that you used a widely-known format.
Also, these appear almost ready-made for the spec-files-extra repository. So maybe the pkgbuild folks (Laca?) could pick these up for inclusion there too? Eric On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Paul Cunningham wrote: > I have resent this because the first time (yesterday) it was blocked by the > alias and not released due to the size of the attachment. I have reduced the > attachment size by removing all the unnecessary bits and attached that now. > Please read on ....... > > Paul > > Paul Cunningham wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Attached are my first attempts at creating a set of gnome style spec files >> for building the opensource packages that make up the "Solaris CUPS Print >> Suite". The packages they build are direct replacements for the packages >> that are on (or were on) the Companion CD (CCD) - whoops it's a DVD now. >> >> These packages are: >> SFWcups SFWespgs SFWfltk SFWgutenprint SFWpnm2ppa >> SFWcupsprint SFWffilters SFWfppds SFWhpijs SFWxpp >> where package SFWcupsprint is a dummy package that pulls all the others >> together (via dependencies). >> >> I have briefly tested them on sparc, but I only have one network printer, >> and as such they all work together okay. >> >> The attached tarball contains the spec files, patches, include files and a >> Makefile. I have only built them on Solaris 10 sparc but they should >> hopefully work okay on x86 and Solaris nv. At the time of creating the spec >> files they used the latest stable version of the packages (except >> gutenprint which is rc3). >> >> The next step is to break down the CUPS package into sub-packages in the >> way that Norm (Solaris Print Group) has suggested (so that it works along >> side the Solaris Print System) ..... >> >> Norm wrote: >> > I was thinking about breaking down the packaging into something along >> > the lines of >> > SFWcups-libs >> > SFWcups-spooler >> > SFWcups-commands >> > SFWcups-filters >> >> I hope these are useful to someone, let me know. If I have missed any >> packages that should be in the suite let me know. Also if you find any >> problem with the resultant packages also let me know. >> >> Regards >> Paul >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Paul Cunningham >> >
