[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [desktop-discuss] SFE binary packages for OpenSolaris]

[Jyri Virkki]

Darren Kenny wrote:
>

[catching up on email here...]

> That's probably true, unfortunately, but I certainly think that
> there is a lot to be said for encouraging further break up of the
> existing OpenSolaris build system from being monolithic to being
> smaller parts - right now if I want to make a change to something
> like /usr/bin/cat I have to have a complete build of ON done - this
> really does seem excessive to me.
> 
> As Alo pointed out - Debian allows for (re)building a binary package
> from a source package - but that is independent of actual build
> system (Ant, dmake, autoconf, etc) that is used to do the build -
> but what's important is that the source package is, in itself, smart
> enough to know *how* to build, and the dependencies needed for the
> build to be done.

There will definitely be a need for something along these lines,
though I suspect ON will not be the first place to adopt it. In SFW
this is going to become critical sooner as more and more components
become available. The monolithic build/source tree will collapse under
its own size so there will need to be ways to build the components
individually.

I started writing a bit about this
(http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/entry/unconsolidating) a few weeks
ago and meant to follow up with alternative and some experimentation
before the holidays but the day job intervened. Hopefully I'll get to
it early next year.

Anyway, if it's something you're interested in it'll probably make
sense to follow sfw (sfw-discuss).


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Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems