[OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello Chris!

Just in the rare case you did't know it yet,
there's joyent pkgsrc where a hole lot of packages are patched to build 
on Illumos derivates.
At least worth to have look at in case of 'problems'.

https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/

Greetings,
Stephan


On 01/20/21 08:46, Chris wrote:
> On 2021-01-19 22:58, Judah Richardson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:55 AM Chris <oidev at bsdos.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares.
>>> I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading
>>> some OI packages. As I began looking at the process I
>>> stumbled on distribution-constructor and thought; why
>>> not build up some additional desktop installs. I had
>>> intended to build both the Xfce4 and Cinnamon desktop
>>> packages anyway. So why not ask to see if the any
>>> OI users/developers/caretakers would be interested in
>>> providing xfce4 or cinnamon desktop ISO and USB images.
>>> Would something like this be of any interest?
>>> If so. I'll start building all the necessary bits straight
>>> away.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback.
>>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> I'd be most interested in OI KDE spins.
> Thanks for your feedback, Judah.
> I'd probably be up for that. But as I haven't touched KDE in at
> least a year. I may be slower than you'd wish. Still, I'll
> make a go of it. :-)
> I'll likely have an Xfce4 before that. As I'm already well familiar
> building it.
>
> Thanks again!
>>
>> Judah
>>
>  --Chris
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>>>
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