mgar branch v2-ips

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Jan,

Am 03.12.2015 um 10:23 schrieb Jan Holzhueter <jh at opencsw.org>:
> Am 03.12.15 um 10:18 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen:
>> I suggest to add different targets per platform. Currently we have
>>  PACKAGING_PLATFORMS ?= solaris10-sparc solaris10-i386
>> which should default to
>>  PACKAGING_PLATFORMS ?= solaris10-sparc-svr4 solaris10-i386-svr4
>> and
>>  PACKAGING_PLATFORMS ?= solaris11-sparc solaris11-i386
>> would default to
>>  PACKAGING_PLATFORMS ?= solaris11-sparc-ips solaris11-i386-ips
>> 
>> If you want explicitly SVR4 packages for Solaris 11 you would need to add
>>  PACKAGING_PLATFORMS += solaris11-sparc-svr4 solaris11-i386-svr4
>> 
>> This way it is up to the package to decide what to build.
>> Thoughts?
> 
> That would kick off a whole new build just to have differend "packages".
> (Quite time consuming on large builds)
> We need both at the beginning for Solaris 11 anyway. So I would just
> like to have e.g. PACKGINING_TARGET=srv4 ips. So it would just package
> twice on s11. Not sure if thats possibale with the gar layout.

The problem is the merging: with separate platforms for ips and srv4 you
can adjust the merging to honour specific layouts. Apart from that it
may be useful to depend on other IPS packages instead of our own ones
which requires a different build anyway.


Best regards

  — Dago

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