[desktop-discuss] Re: Building JDS - Missing files....

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Doug Scott wrote:
>   The outdated version or missing files from external sites
> is what I am trying to go through and fix now. Though recently
> it has proved much more difficult to build JDS because the build
> many packages now rely on closed source code.
> 
> When you cannot eithen build firefox, there is something wrong.
>     ERROR: SUNWfirefox: Source file firefox-2.0-apoc-adapter-verm54.tar.bz2 not found 
> 
> It seems that recently, rather than decreasing closed source, JDS has actually increased,
> which makes it impossible for a non sun community member to build JDS. It would be nice
> to have a policy that any new code added to JDS is open source. If it is closed source then
> other packages cannot have it added to its 'Required' list.
> 
> Sorry thats my rant/bitch for today :)

No, it's perfectly entitled. We *really* need to do something about this. Maybe
it's something as simple as separating out the non-open spec files from the
repository into a separate directory.

It's bad opensolaris ju ju otherwise.


Glynn