[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox v5.1.0 on hipster lastest

[Andrew Gabriel]

On 13/07/2016 22:24, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> Adam Števko writes:
>> anyone interested in packaging virtualbox? That would help everybody.
> I have not followed any of the upstream virtualbox mailing lists.
> Does anyone know why they publish only a SVR4 package for Solaris?
> That package is IPS-aware and checks several IPS dependencies under
> Solaris 11.
>
> As far as I can tell, the SVR4 package would have to be converted
> to an IPS package, and the various scripts run during pkgadd would
> have to be merged in an SMF assembly service.  Some amount of work,
> but certainly doable.

That's partly why it wasn't done - the SVR4 package is a mixture of 
installation and configuration, but for IPS these two have to be 
separated out. Also, they would then have needed two installers, one for 
Solaris 10 and one for Solaris 11. Sticking with SVR4 meant they didn't 
need to resolve either of these issues.

-- 
Andrew