We should talk about getting IPS packages going

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

Our community site counts visits. Questions about IPS and Solaris 11
have are visited more often, by about 1 order of magnitude.

http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/ips-questions.png

We're an open source project, so the sole reason why we don't have an
IPS repository is that nobody did it yet. From my conversation with
Dago about it, there are 2 things that need to be done:

1. IPS backend for GAR
2. build environment - somebody has to administer it

I also know that some of our maintainers effectively got inactive
because they mainly need / build IPS packages, and we don't have a
framework to do that.

Each time we talk about IPS, we look a bit like this:
http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/startrek-1.gif

Maybe we should get something going, something quick and dirty? It
might be something like running "mgar merge" and then a completely
different command to build the package? That would be completely fine
for now.

If the resulting IPS catalog would be in someone's home dir, that
would be fine too. When it's done we can move it to a common place.

If packages were built on somebody's VM, that would be fine too.

Does anybody here manage Solaris 11 hosts?

Maciej