[indiana-discuss] src packages

[Jonathan Edwards]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:31:51PM -0500, Jonathan Edwards wrote:
>> okay .. regardless of the consolidation - where do we specify  
>> standard
>> configure/build options for consistency in the spec file and what
>> macros are available to help reproduce a build?  for rpm you can see:
>> http://rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-build-creating-spec-file.html
>>
>> with standard build macros available here:
>> http://rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-macros.html
>>
>> for IPS all i can find are:
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/contributing/pkgcomp/
>> and
>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/ggdvj.html
>>
>> which just detail install.sh style options and dependencies and how  
>> to
>> send packages places
>
> We're using spec files in the Source Juicer and pkg factory projects.
> The spec files for Source Juicer may well be online now (though a  
> quick
> look at the dtip repository does not show any), but the ones for pkg
> factory are definitely not online yet (they will be, and soon, they  
> just
> aren't there today).

any documentation yet on syntax? .. while a picture is worth 1000  
words - i'm thinking the cloud diagrams on pkgfactory and sourcejuicer  
leave a lot of leeway to the collective Rorschach imagination