[csw-maintainers] checkpkg problem on opensolaris distribution

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> 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.

The only thing I've work on is creating a useful tool to convert from
.pkg to .ips instead of Sun's junk. It's in a working state and I've
installed lots of OpenCSW packages from my converted repository.

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Trygve