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Thursday October 20, 2005

packaging svk So, Adam, never fear..

I have two bits of tech in hand which will make deploying svk on solaris for development purposes pretty painless.

1) NetBSD's pkgsrc will build packages on solaris and handle chasing down the dozens of dependencies.  Currently it has SVK 1.00, but I've got diffs to the pkgsrc config to take it to 1.05 under review right now (three packages needed to be upgraded and two more needed to be added.  took me about an hour and a half last night).

2) there's a "gensolpkg" inside pkgsrc which will create solaris/SVR4-format packages.   it's a little rusty as it still assumes the 9-character package name limit, but that's easily repaired, and I should probably commit that fix as well..

toss them all into a single packagestream-format blob and we're all set.

Only real misfeature at this point is that pkgsrc insists on building its own copy of perl.   But given that we lock down most aspects of the build/development environment, and occasionally get hurt when we don't, this might be another case where we should just take the hit of another copy.

       
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