[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] Leveraging other package repositories

[Brandorr]

What is required? I assumed it would just be an FTP or HTTP server.
Could someone please clarify?

On Nov 7, 2007 2:27 AM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/07, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > I am wondering if there is a way we can leverage the work the Nexenta
> > folks have done to create a 12,000+ package Solaris repository? Also
> > the NetBSD package source folks have over 6,000 source packages that
> > work with Solaris, it would be great to find a way to leverage those
> > to create IPS packages.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> Possible sources of work to leverage from to setup a central repository:
> - SFW
> - CCD
> - spec-files-extra(SFE)
> - Nexenta repos
> - NetBSD repos
> - Blastwave
>
> The tooling used for SFE currently output SVR4 packages. I believe
> they are being worked to output IPS packages. Enhancing the SFE
> repository for the time being might be a easy means to quickly
> populate the IPS repository once it is setup.
>
> Shall we have setting up of IPS repository as a project proposal and
> get going? Without this the utility of the distro is severely
> constrained. If there is interest I would like to help with this
> effort.
>
> regards
> Shiv
>



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