[OpenIndiana-discuss] The Illumos pkgsrc project

[Dustin Marquess]

I would like to help out if I can.  I've been using pkgsrc + Studio
12.2 exclusively on my OI servers, so I've already done quite a bit of
hacking to get packages to compile.

I assume any changes are going to be sent back upstream?  Sort of how
the DFBSD pkgsrc stuff works?

-Dustin

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Mads Worsøe Duun <mads at worsoe.dk> wrote:
> 2011/2/7 Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com>
>
>> On 2 Feb 2011, at 19:30, Mads Worsøe Duun wrote:
>>
>> > *The Illumos pkgsrc project*
>> >
>> > I have created Illumos pkgsrc project at
>> > http://www.illumos.org/projects/worsoe.
>>
>> Great stuff!
>
>
> Somebody had to do it.
>
>
>>
>> > The is about making NetBSD's pkgsrc http://www.pkgsrc.org shine on
>> > Illumos/Openindiana. Pkgsrc already work on Illumos/Openindiana, but
>> really
>> > need some love to make it shine. Below are some ideas of what is needed:
>> >
>> > *Script to bootstrap pkgsrc under Illumos/Openindiana (WIP)*
>> > I already have a script to bootstrap pkgsrc, but some of it need to be
>> > rewritten. It also need some more testing.
>> >
>> > *Pkgsrc patches for Solaris/Illumos pkgsrc*
>> > A lot of packages will not build, or do not work very well on
>> > Illumos/Openindiana, so patches need to be written. This is probably the
>> > most needed and demanding task. Therefore I call for volunteers to help
>> with
>> > this. For commiting patches to pkgsrc, we can do one of too things:
>> >
>> > 1. Commit the patches to the official pkgsrc repo.
>> > 2. Host our own repo, wich is in sync with the official repo
>> >
>> > With the second solution, we can have patches committed faster.
>> >
>> > *Pkgsrc2ips script*
>> > Develop a script to convert pkgsrc to IPS packages. Creation of SVR4
>> > packages is not needed, as a utility for this already exist in pkgsrc.
>>
>> I've already written a proof of concept for this.
>>
>> The biggest challenge is dealing with package dependencies - NetBSD allows
>> strings as versions, such as 0.9.8g, 1.2rc2, 4.5alpha1 or whatever - and has
>> some stupidly complicated (and as far as I'm concerned, stupid) method of
>> comparing versions called dewey.
>>
>> So I decided in my proof of concept just to have dependencies based on
>> package name, not version, and to leave dependencies to pkgsrc itself.
>>
>
> The idea was to include a pkgsrc2ips function in that script that I already
> got. But if you already got a proof of concept for this, there are no reason
> to reinvent the wheel.
>
>
>>
>> > *Build bulk*
>> > Creation of a build bulk system, to create binary packages (we also need
>> a
>> > host to provide binaries).
>>
>> OpenIndiana will happily host any repos, build zones or download sites (eg
>> dlc.openindian.org) for this work. Please do join #oi-dev on
>> irc.freenode.net to discuss this.
>>
>
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Alasdair
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>
>
> Thanks Alasdair, it's very nice to have your and Openindiana's support, and
> I would be very happy to use openindiana.org as host for this project. I
> have jointed #oi-dev (Worsoe) so we can discuss where to go from here.
>
> Regards,
> Mads Worsøe Duun
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