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

[Shawn Walker]

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

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