We should talk about getting IPS packages going

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Gordon,

Am 15.05.2014 um 19:43 schrieb Gordon Marler <gmarler at opencsw.org>:
> On 5/11/2014 5:59 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński wrote:
>> Em 06/05/2014 06:08, "Gordon Marler" <gmarler at opencsw.org> escreveu:
>> > Stripping out the features in mgar that are native to IPS is probably important, to avoid duplication of effort.
>> 
>> My idea was to use "mgar merge" to get the pkgroot directory. Then we could use any means necessary to build an IPS package front that pkgroot, taking as much information as possible from the GAR build recipe. Then we would ask Dago for help in integrating it into GAR.
>> 
>> Gordon, do you think it's possible to start that way? Is anything blocking you?
> 
> Sounds reasonable.  Just getting myself reactivated and up to speed now.  IRC (I'll be gmarler, duh), and reading up on all that's changed while I've been "dormant".
> 
> I guess the only thing slowing me down would be this:
> 
> - I suppose we'll be starting this IPS repo from scratch, so I'd better start building packages from the foundation up, and we'll fix items as they show up as obstacles along the way.  Is there a nice way to either see or generate a dependency list of the package chain from the bottom up?  That'll provide a nice map to follow.

Sure, these are on the qa pages, e.g.
  http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=imagemagick
(the generation of the graph takes a little time, be patient)
You can click on some boxes and package names, feel free to play around with it.

> Separately, and I'll probably see this shortly, but is there a Solaris 11 x86 or SPARC system in the buildfarm?

Sure, unstable11s and unstable11x.

> If not, I have an x86 variant available.  Having a SPARC M-x000 or T4 or higher will be required if we want to have dual binary builds for each package, which IPS supports now.  If not, it's easily added later.

Nobody has donated one yet ;-)


Best regards

  — Dago

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