[indiana-discuss] Any clean way to update gimp-print to gutenprint?

[Jisakiel]

As I reported a while ago in http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2601 , I'd love to get a newer gimp-print (which BTW got renamed to gutenprint around 2006 ) in order to be able to print. Are there any pointers on how could I cleanly upgrade gimp-print to gutenprint?


BTW, are there any pointers to documentation on how to make a new IPS package? I come from the pretty simple ebuilds from gentoo (where most of the times renaming the ebuild is quite enough, and they're quite self-describing), though I've also struggled with .deb packages. 

I find welcome additions to IPS would be: 

- Having a "core" set of packages more minimal. Right now it doesn't matter if I remove most of gnome and locales; when I image-upgrade they get reinstalled. Therefore even if I uninstalled SUNWgimpprint (dunnow if I can without breaking half of my printing subsystem)  next image-upgrade would surely get it reinstalled, and therefore it would overwrite my files. Installing in /usr/local from source is more or less a solution, but I don't really believe it will work so easily
- Having some tutorials on how to create / modify IPS packages (is there an equivalent to "apt-get source" to check how the package is made?). I'd personally try to package bzr and apcupsd (as I just installed them from source). 
- Having, in general, more upgraded packages (gcc 3.4? c'mon...)
- Having the option to install a package without getting a whole repository up. Like in "dpkg -i package.deb". 

I guess I don't really grok the image-upgrade thing, coming from a linux world... It gets compared to dist-upgrade, but it seems to me as not so similar (were I to install in a similar way to dpkg -i, in case it's available, would it get overwritten when image-upgraded? How does the version resolution work here?)


I'd rather install the less possible outside the package management system, in related news, in order to be able to uninstall a package...