Re: pkgsrc-2017Q1 packages for illumos now available

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2017-04-18 at 15:41 BST, Swift Griggs wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce that the pkgsrc-2017Q1 binary package sets for
> > illumos are now available, with over 16,000 packages available.
> 
> Nice work, Jonathan! If you have time, I wonder if you might be able to
> describe at a high level any integration you've been able to achieve between
> IPS and pkgsrc. Ie.. do the binary packages you create with pkgsrc then get
> indexed via some kind of network package scheme ala pkg/yum/apt/pkgin etc...

There is nascent support for an IPS backend here:

  https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/tree/joyent/dev/pkgformat-ips

Help to finish it would be most welcome.

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