[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Shawn Walker]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> > The primary issue with that, is that it really isn't practical to have
> > a single tarball of all the source.
> >
> > OpenSolaris is comprised of numerous consolidations that each use
> > their own software build and management mechanisms.
> >
> > The tarball would be gigabytes or larger in size and I'm not even sure
> > how you would organise it.
> >
> > While many of the larger components do have well-documented build
> > systems, etc. I don't think it is practical, at this time, to expect
> > something unified.
> >
> > With that said, one of the goals of the Distribution Community Group
> > is to see that as much documentation as possible is provided so that
> > others can build their own OpenSolaris distributions. So, you can look
> > forward to this documentation eventually being available. However, we
> > need volunteers to help produce it! I would invite anyone interested
> > to join the distribution-discuss mailing list and participate in the
> > Distribution CG.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
>
>  I don't think it's that unreasonable (yes, realising you said "practical"
> not "reasonable")... many other Linux distros do this (via shipping SRPMS,
> etc. on a DVD or at least making them available).

Indeed, I certainly don't believe it is unreasonable. But a single
tarball does seem a bit impractical.

Now, it does seem reasonable and practical to have a tarball of every
consolidation from which Indiana is built.

Though I know that would take quite a bit of work to ensure no private
build bits accidentally got sent out.

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben