[indiana-discuss] Create your own OpenSolaris IPS repository in a Weekend

[Michal Pryc]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Hello Indiana community,
>>
>> I have created four from six planned parts of the presentation "Create
>> your own OpenSolaris IPS repository in a Weekend", which will cover
>> whole process from building packages using Common Build Environment to
>> sending those packages to the IPS repository, which you might want to
>> set up for Indiana and share great and fancy OpenSource applications.
> 
>   Maybe I am missing something here. Are you saying that I have to rebuild
> the software packages ( pre-existing SVR4 style ) in order to get them
> into an IPS repo?
> 
> Dennis

Hello Dennis,

Try to think this way:
IPS is the way of delivering packages, so you don't need to rebuild 
anything unless it is needed by underlying system. For example if you 
would like to set up IPS repository for Indiana, than probably you will 
need to rebuild some of the packages, since there is lack of some 
libraries on the system (all the non-opensource ones).

-- 
best
Michal