[csw-users] How can I get blastwave's package sources?

[Yann Rouillard]

Christopher Odenbach a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
>>   It would be very nice if one could drag down the svn tree and then
>> build from the sources to get a perfect reproduction of the binaries.
>> Sort of like the Debian Linux project.

I am sure pkg-init is a great tool, but there is already a automatic 
build system available at blastwave, even if not mandatory.
Have a look at http://svn.blastwave.org
I am not sure we need yet another build system.

Yann

> Seems to be the perfect moment to introduce my tool pkg-init!
> 
> Q: What is pkg-init?
> A: pkg-init is a tool which takes a pristine source tar-ball, asks a few 
> questions and then creates a build directory. This directory contains 
> everything that is needed to build a binary Solaris package AND a 
> source package.
> 
> Q: What is a source package?
> A: The missing link! A source package is just a plain tar.gz which 
> includes the formerly described build directory. So you can extract the 
> source package, modify what you want and rebuild everything. As a 
> result you get a new binary package and a new source package, 
> containing the modifications you did. This is software evolution, very 
> similar to the Debian Linux way (which was of course the goal).
> 
> Q: What do I need else?
> A: The build process uses fakeroot which is available as a blastwave 
> package. My pkg-init package contains the dependancy so you should be 
> fine. pkg-init itself is written in pure perl, so you can modify it as 
> you like.
> 
> Q: How does it work?
> A: pkg-init contains a template for the build directory. The main part 
> of this template is a Makefile which contains rules for every part of 
> the build process. The whole build process runs as user, there is no 
> need to build as root (and you should not!).
> 
> Q: Sounds good. Where do I get pkg-init?
> A: Download the package from
> 
> http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/odenbach/projects/pkg-init
> 
> 
> Of course this is not perfect (yet). But it is very helpful. When I 
> tried to build my first Solaris package, I followed the instructions on 
> the blastwave site at
> http://www.blastwave.org/standards/pkg-walkthrough.php
> There are many things to remember and to do manually, which could easily 
> be automated. That is where pkg-init jumps in.
> 
> In many cases it is sufficient to do
> 
> pkg-init source.tar.gz
> [answer questions]
> cd source-dir
> make
> cd ..
> 
> which I think is much easier than the blastwave way. :-) Even more 
> important: Every thing you change from the default way is remembered in 
> the created source package (or source archive if you prefer).
> 
> It took me hours to build my first working Solaris package. When I gave 
> this tool to one of my students who had never built a Solaris package 
> before, it took him 20 minutes to build one. So give it a try.
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
> 
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