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

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

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

It was more a friendly prod to start dog-fooding Indiana. It's definitely
getting to the stage of being a very usable system - I've been running it as my
only environment since DP last October.

> 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.

It should be possible now to start being able to remove much of the CBE - apart
from pkg[build,tool] and the compilers, you've mostly got everything you need. I
think the only thing that's missing is libtool, which you could install separately.

> For this people need to have IPS running on Nevada.

Not necessarily :)

> 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?

Indiana dog-food - I totally encourage it! Anyone started to pull together some
distro-import files for SFE, or is the plan to natively send binaries directly
to IPS?


Glynn