[indiana-discuss] "Where do I download OpenSolaris" Ian Murdock

[Richard Lowe]

Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> writes:

> * Martin Man <Martin.Man at sun.com> [2007-08-29 11:39]:
>> I'm sure of only one thing, as long as my system does not allow me to:
>> 
>> # apt-get build-deps myprogram
>> # apt-get source -b myprogram
>> 
>> I'm locked into the FTBFS madness and I'm slave of whoever produced the 
>> binary package.
>
>   What is FTBFS?

Fails To Build From Source, it's a debian-ish term.

>   Anyway, what I am trying to say in the blog post is that, technically,
>   I don't see I don't see how we can write a build system right now,
>   given the many problems with current patching and packaging and,
>   to corral the various binary producers, I see a unified build system
>   as an _obstacle_.  I'm happy to define the per-package metadata as
>   much as possible to allow build systems to be built atop the packaging
>   system.

I agree, there's absolutely no need to tie the build and packaging
together, the radically different ways pkgbuild, ON/SFW, and others
do this demonstrates (at least to me), that these can work well
(for various opinions thereof) without any real integration with the
packaging machinery.

-- Rich
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