[osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:45 -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> 5) Rpm is rpmbuild as well.  Though you don't have to use it to build
>    the software and the package, it's a lot easier and usually a good
>    discipline because it automates much of the process. 

pkgbuild intends to be rpmbuild for Solaris.
See http://pkgbuild.sf.net
JDS is built with pkgbuild.

> 1) Upon package creating, the tools automatically scan for known
>    dependancy types. dynamic libaries are scanned for symbol names and
>    versions (as supplied by the linker, I guess), perl, python and
>    concievably other interpreters will be scanned for statements that
>    indicate dependancy such as "use" in perl, or "import" in python.

pkgbuild doesn't do this yet, but "autoreqprovider" is on my todo list.
It won't be too difficult if I re-use Alan Coopersmith's check_deps
script.

Laca