<div dir="ltr">Hi Gordon,<div><br></div><div>You need to reply to the list from your @opencsw email address.</div><div><br></div><div>Maciej</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:39 PM, gmarler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmarler@gmarler.com" target="_blank">gmarler@gmarler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Yes, I'm pretty much only doing S11 and IPS for the past 2-3 years.<div><br></div><div>Publishing is currently done via the built in S11 pkgbuild tool, but mgar could easily outstrip it's lacking features.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can manage the S11 host's pkg/server SMF service, and do a continuous brain dump on everything I've learned.</div><div><br></div><div>And there's thankfully documentation for the IPS packaging concepts that have been missing for quite some time. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Stripping out the features in mgar that are native to IPS is probably important, to avoid duplication of effort.</div><div><div class="h5"><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <u></u> <br>
Date:05/04/2014 1:29 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: CSW maintainers <u></u> <br>Subject: We should talk about getting IPS packages going <br><br>Our community site counts visits. Questions about IPS and Solaris 11<br>have are visited more often, by about 1 order of magnitude.<br>
<br><a href="http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/ips-questions.png" target="_blank">http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/ips-questions.png</a><br><br>We're an open source project, so the sole reason why we don't have an<br>
IPS repository is that nobody did it yet. From my conversation with<br>Dago about it, there are 2 things that need to be done:<br><br>1. IPS backend for GAR<br>2. build environment - somebody has to administer it<br><br>
I also know that some of our maintainers effectively got inactive<br>
because they mainly need / build IPS packages, and we don't have a<br>framework to do that.<br><br>Each time we talk about IPS, we look a bit like this:<br><a href="http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/startrek-1.gif" target="_blank">http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/startrek-1.gif</a><br>
<br>Maybe we should get something going, something quick and dirty? It<br>might be something like running "mgar merge" and then a completely<br>different command to build the package? That would be completely fine<br>
for now.<br><br>If the resulting IPS catalog would be in someone's home dir, that<br>would be fine too. When it's done we can move it to a common place.<br><br>If packages were built on somebody's VM, that would be fine too.<br>
<br>Does anybody here manage Solaris 11 hosts?<br><br>Maciej<br><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>