[illumos-Developer] Plans on removing dependency on IPS ?

[Garrett D'Amore]

Probably there should be a separate list for this... several others have
expressed interest in collaborating here as well.

	- Garrett

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 03:02 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> > No formal plans, but I'm working with a few of my engineers to do this.
> > We'll probably replace that with an SVR4-ish dependency for building,
> > using the SVR4 tools we have in tree.  (IPS will still be an option, but
> > should be *optional* rather than *mandatory*.)
> >
> > No timeline yet.
> 
> Thanks for the info. Would it be possible to conduct the internal
> discussion on this mailing list ? That way, we could work together,
> plus there would be some visibility into the thinking as well as
> progress.
> 
> >
> >        - Garrett
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 02:29 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> >> Hello:
> >>
> >> Are there any plans or actions in progress on removing the dependency on IPS ?
> >>
> >> Has anyone done any analysis on this aspect so far? Have these
> >> findings been documented anywhere?
> >>
> >> As mentioned a few times in the past, the Belenix team wants to ensure
> >> that we do not use IPS and instead move to RPM5. We want to pay
> >> attention to generating rpms of the illumos build. We're about to
> >> explore this shortly, and would like to work together with anyone
> >> working on this specific task.
> >>
> >> -- Sriram
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> >> Belenix: www.belenix.org
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