[indiana-discuss] src packages

[Alan Coopersmith]

Robert Milkowski wrote:
> Well, it still won't give you end-user experience like 'rpm -ba
> mc.src.rpm' when after a minute or so user ends up with mc.rpm binary
> package.

Do you really want the end-user experience of doing "pkg build-from-source
SUNWcs" and having it download hundreds of megabytes and then spend hours
building the entire ON consolidation ?

There's only a small source package corresponding exactly to a binary
package for a small portion of OpenSolaris packages - I think pretty
much just SFW and some of JDS, I think, neither of which come pre-set-up
with everything you need to rebuild their sources.

Implementing this requires re-engineering the entire build system of
the OpenSolaris consolidations, not just adding an option to IPS.

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