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

Michal Pryc Michal.Pryc at Sun.COM
Thu Jan 17 05:36:52 PST 2008


Glynn Foster wrote:
> 
> Michal Pryc 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.
>>
>> First two parts:
>> http://blogs.sun.com/migi/entry/create_your_own_opensolaris_ips
>>
>> Another two parts:
>> http://blogs.sun.com/migi/entry/create_your_own_opensolaris_ips1
>>
>> So grab some popcorn and enjoy watching!
> 
> Sweet - already looking forward to the final 2 parts. FWIW, anyone already on
> Indiana won't need to bother about getting the latest sources unless they're
> keen to do active development on IPS. What's available on pkg.opensolaris.org
> *should* be enough - and there'll no doubt be a chance to upgrade that with the
> developer preview in a couple weeks time.

Hello Glynn,
I know that on Indiana there is no need to bother about getting IPS from 
sources.

We do have plenty of spec-files on SFE which are not available through 
IPS. Please correct me if I am wrong, but for people from community the 
only way of getting this software is by building using Common Build 
Environment.

CBE is available on the Nevada but is not on Indiana, so the easiest way 
of getting those packages to Indiana is to build them on Nevada (with 
indiana flag) and than sending to any IPS server, which might also run 
on Indiana box.

For this people need to have IPS running on Nevada.

So my intention was to show the easiest (In my opinion) way of doing that :)

Summarizing:
                           Nevada     Indiana
Can IPS server run:         yes         yes
Is CBE available:           yes         no

am I wrong?

best
Michal


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