[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris development package repository build 106, x86/x64/SPARC

[Glynn Foster]

On 4/02/2009, at 10:49 PM, Greg Palmer wrote:

> Luca Morettoni wrote:
>> On 02/03/09 20:58, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>>
>>> The OpenSolaris development package repository
>>>
>>>  http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/
>>>
>>
>> great release, I hate it into a virtualbox installation and all  
>> work fine!!
>> Just a *big* simple question: when we can see some new pkg's into
>> release branch? For example for my job I use vnc frequently, and
>> gnome-vinagre is a very usefull tool, but missing into 2008.11  
>> release
>> branch (now I use the other vnc pkg in the repository, of course),  
>> like
>> me I think there are a lot of people waiting some new pkgs into the
>> stable repo...
>>
>>
> Not for a few months Luca. Sun just moved to a production release  
> every
> 6 months so that it is stable. The updating typical of the old release
> repo is now happening in the dev repo.

Just to add to what Greg said, all the development work is happening  
in the dev repo and the one to follow if you want the absolute  
bleeding edge bits (including bugs). It's likely that /release won't  
see a lot of new package action in that regard, though currently / 
contrib and /pending are both built as 2008.11 as the base platform.  
Once the next release comes along, we'll sync up /dev with /release  
and that'll result in seeing a bunch of new packages. That's a pretty  
standard approach for most community distributions  FWIW.


Glynn