[OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various software

[Jan Owoc]

I don't know how IPS actually works, but I can forward you to the
Wikipedia page for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Packaging_System

The first external link about the Image Packaging System for
OpenSolaris should be relevant to OpenIndiana as well. You can browse
through that until someone on the list forwards you to
OpenIndiana-specific instructions (if they exist - OI tends to forward
to OpenSolaris documentation a lot).

Jan

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Bryan Iotti <ironsides.medvet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be interested in learning how to package correctly too. Would save
> a lot of time and trouble if I didn't have to compile stuff like the R
> statistical program.
>
> If I recall correctly, you need a particular setup (with SunStudio?) to
> prepare packages for the IPS repo.
>
> Bryan
> On Apr 8, 2012 2:46 AM, "Andrew Myers" <lists at abmyers.com> wrote:
>
>> How difficult is packaging?  Is OI looking for people to help?  Is it
>> perhaps some way I could get involved?  I have some experience with
>> rpmbuild - is there an Solaris equivalent?
>>