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

[Alvaro Lopez Ortega]

Darren Kenny wrote, On 12/12/2007 12:34:

 > Personally, I would have liked the IPS system to have also included a new
 > OpenSolaris build system too, like Debian packages do, which would be used for
 > *all* packages,

Let me clarity this. The Debian packaging system (dpkg) does not have
a special build system because it is not needed.

Dpkg can use whatever building mechanism the source package is based
on, and therefore there is no need to reinvent a new one for it. It
can build autotools based programs, plain make, cmake or anything else
that can be invoked from a script - a Makefile target, actually.

Personally, that is the main reason why I cannot still understand by
the IPS packages doesn't support binary to source packages references
and rebuilding.

There would not be any need to impose a new building system. We could
have implemented the binary to source link and keep using the original
compiling mechanisms without any kind of problem (as Debian does).

Having the links and order (one to one, one to many, etc) between
source and binary packages, the compiling support should be a
different layer of abstraction and would be up to each one which
compiling mechanism they base their applications on.

 > but that's not how it's done right now, and I don't know if there is
 > any intention on going that way unless the community really push for
 > it...

I do hope so.. I have used that a million time on Debian. It is a
really handy way of taking advantage of having the source code
available.

-- 
Greetings, alo.