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

[Chris]

On 2021-01-20 00:28, Stephan Althaus wrote:
> 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.
> Hello Chris!
Hello, Stephan!
Thanks for the pointer. I remember there having been one. But I didn't
run across it in all my recent reading on the OI web site.

Thank you! :-)

--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
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thanks again!
>>> 
>>> Judah
>>> 
>>  --Chris

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