[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mozilla

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:02:49PM -0500, Hillel Lubman wrote:
> In general Mozilla's release cycle is more rapid than most distros. So it
> may be worthwhile to create a separate repository for Mozilla packages, for
> those who want to use most up to date, or even alpha/beta ones. Ubuntu did
> it for example:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page

There are many other software products where the source is maintained
by another group and that only need IPS packaging to run on many
distributions of Solaris.  For example, I'm in the process of building
an IPS package for the ISC DHCP server.

This is is an excellent method of product integration, since the the
upstream group only needs to build something that will install into an
image.  The downstream group then only needs to convert the image into
a package of the appropriate type, and load it into a package
repository.

> But someone obviously will need to maintain it.

Somebody would need to maintain the repository framework, but the
packages could be added and replaced by a variety of contributors.

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-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-