[csw-maintainers] checkpkg problem on opensolaris distribution

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 27.10.2009 um 17:16 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Aubrey Li <aubrey at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> opensolaris supports both SVR4 and IPS. I can use opencsw package
>> on osol, for what reason we should NOT create package on osol?
>
> for the exact reason that was brought up: it's "different" :-) and
> reasonable, sane things that work on normal solaris, dont work on
> opensolaris.
> It is also quite likely, that you will end up doing things that work
> on opensolaris, that do NOT work on normal solaris.
>
> So, best not to do it.
>
> Please set up a zone on your own machines, or if not, use our opencsw
> build/test machines. that's what they are here for, after all.

To clarify this some more: This is for the official OpenCSW
packages released to current/. However, work is being done
to add a repository for IPS packages for OpenSolaris and you
are very welcome to drive the work in that direction, especially
package conversion (I heard Trygve has started work on this),
porting of the cswutils to OpenSolaris and a naive GAR IPS
backend.


Best regards

   -- Dago