Jan Schaumann wrote:

>Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh@Sun.COM> wrote:
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>>I wanted to use a modern packaging framework and Pkgsrc appears to be an 
>>ideal
>>choice. I am a newbie to Pkgsrc and am thinking of using Pkgsrc to 
>>package the entire
>>OpenSolaris base distribution as well as use the other open-source 
>>packages. Is this
>>advisable or even feasible ? Any suggestions ?
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>I think that's a great idea and pkgsrc would lend itself to this task
>indeed.  I think there are other, similar efforts with a pkgsrc based
>Linux distribution where the entire installation is pkgsrc based
>(including kernel, base system etc.; see
>http://linux.pugetsoundtechnology.com/faq/).  I think it was Jeremy Reed
>who did this -- maybe he can chip in on this discussion?
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>pkgsrc already does a great jobs of providing software packages for
>Solaris, and seeing how DragonFlyBSD adopted pkgsrc, I see no reason why
>another OS couldn't also make use of this framework.
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   In fact we have already tested Pkgsrc on BeleniX. We got hold of the 
bootstrap kit and built it.
   Subsequently we pulled packages from the the Solaris 9 binary 
repository which worked out
   of the box.

   However as far as I understand a repository for BeleniX will require 
packages with a default
   LOCALBASE of "/" as we'd want Pkgsrc to manage the entire software base.

Regards,
Moinak.

>-Jan
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