[oi-dev] How to properly contribute 3rd party software packages for illumos and/or OpenIndiana?

[Magnus Hedemark]

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On Apr 21, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
>  May I ask some questions on how I could help with integration
> of popular software with illumos and/or openindiana?
> 
>  Some of my bugs/rfes deal with "I'd like to have such-and-such
> software in OI repo out of the box"; recent examples include NUT
> and OpenVPN. Say I did this and tested on my systems - compiled,
> made SMF methods, maybe some lower-level OS changes (i.e. shutdown
> handlers for NUT, drivers/tuning for OpenVPN), and personally
> liked the result.
> 
>  Then what? How does it get upstream for everybodys benefit?
> What do I send upstream, and how, and to which upstream?
> 
>  Should I make some packaging descriptors (SVR4/IPS)?
>  Should there be some specialized build manifests (i.e. spec-files
> like in RedHat SRPMs for automated rpm-builds?)
>  What is the product I should try to push into the source code
> repository, and which one - illumos-userland, openindiana-userland,
> or are these two particular projects (NUT, OpenVPN) "lowlevel"
> enough to get into the main ON gate (at least partially)?
> 
>  I guess the upstream project won't need the binaries, but rather
> the source code (original 3rd party code and my OI-integration
> patches to it)?
> 
>  I roamed around the wikis, but either I missed the page where
> such contribution procedure is outlined, or it is not there =)
> 
> Thanks,
> //Jim Klimov
> 
> 
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