[indiana-discuss] "Where do I download OpenSolaris" Ian Murdock

[Martin Man]

Hey,

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 29/08/2007, Martin Man <Martin.Man at sun.com> wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> On 29/08/2007, Rene Cunningham <rene at terdmonk.com> wrote:
>>>> This _could be_ something like what debian provides with `apt-get
>>>> source` where the end user can easily obtain access to pristine upstream source plus
>>>> debian changes and changelog for the package.
>>> I'm not sure that fits with the comments made so far that indicate
>>> that the new packaging solution being worked on will not provide a
>>> build system.
>>>
>>> That isn't to say that the source, etc. couldn't still be obtained via
>>> a method you suggest, but it would not have the same result as an
>>> srpm, or what apt-get does.
>> so what result it will have?
> 
> I don't know, but this post may be interesting to you:
> http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/pkg_leaving_the_build_system

Well as much as I tried to undersand what Stephen tries to say, I simply 
don't get the message, but it might be due to a language barrier.

I'm sure of only one thing, as long as my system does not allow me to:

# apt-get build-deps myprogram
# apt-get source -b myprogram

I'm locked into the FTBFS madness and I'm slave of whoever produced the 
binary package.

For interested parties, I work for Sun as a sustaining engineer and I do 
have a regular problem to "apt-get source -b" some of our software 
packages. I'm not proud of that and I was hoping Indiana will finally 
bring order to chaos...

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