[gnu-sol-discuss] contributing pkgs

[Luc I. Suryo]

> >I read the article about location and hierachy.. painfull
> >so what's has been decided then? I need to know before I rebuild the
> >pkgs..
> 
> Are you building a package for Solaris or GNU/OpenSolaris (Nexenta)?
> If it's the latter, the convention we currently use is to give GNU
> file system layout a priority over Sun's, and if there is a conflicting
> namespace, we place Sun's version under /usr/sun, etc.  This is not
> set in stone, and might evolve as time progresses.
I did not really care, just wanted to help the community, but now I
understand that the GNU Solaris == Nexenta == special distribution based
on the OpenSolaris/Solaris kernel but everything else from GNU.

> 
> If you're building for the former, then obviously Sun file system
> layout takes precedence, and you'd need to place your binary in
> places under /opt.
that is what i wanted to avoid, for years we have the 'battle' between
/usr/local and Sun's /opt/sfw and now /usr/sfw or blastwave's /opt/csw

I would like to see the 'easy' structure.. furher I did some checking on
the Nexenta distro and it has all the package I have in mind.. so what
can/should I do .... 

-ls