Subject: Re: Using pkgsrc for an OpenSolaris distro
To: Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh@Sun.COM>
From: None <segv@netctl.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/28/2005 17:11:04
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:34:46 +0530
Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh@Sun.COM> wrote:

>    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.
> 

Hmm... I wonder if you could create a meta package 'BeleniX-base' which would
pull in other packages like:

BeleniX-kernel
BeleniX-X11
.. etc.