OpenSolaris

1. Project: Java Desktop System: A GNOME-based desktop
   1. Getting Involved
      1. Building the Code
   2. Documents
      1. Bug Lifecycle
      2. Code Review Process
      3. Development Guidelines
      4. Development Model
      5. Format of Patch Comments
      6. JDS Build Schedule
      7. JDS Source Code Tour
      8. Packaging Guidelines
      9. Requesting an SVN Account
      10. Solaris Desktop Gaps
      11. Building GNOME for Indiana OpenSolaris
   3. Tasks
      1. Desktop Printing
      2. gDesklets
      3. Java GNOME Plugin for Netbeans
      4. JPack
      5. MetaTracker
      6. Single System Admin
      7. ZFS Support in Nautilus
      8. Virtual Machine Manager
   4. Observers
   5. Leaders

JPack

JPack is a project that will provide a GUI application for managing different types of packages for Solaris Operating System. It is designed to use packaging tools that are already existing on the system (user interface mockups).

Current version features include

• Get packaging information from installed Solaris packages, folders including Solaris packages, spec-files and packages from Blastwave.org
• Build packages using the JDS Common Build Environment
• Search for packages by name, and description
• Search for files (installed or packages within folders)

Please join our discussions on jpack-discuss [at] opensolaris [dot] org mailing list.

Download

You can now browse the source code, or check out the code from the following repository -

jdsuser@opensolaris:~/> svn co
svn+ssh://anon at svn dot opensolaris dot org/svn/jds/jpack/trunk
jpack

Requires JRE >= 1.6.

Getting involved

We have the following list of tasks available, targeting 0.2 -

Caching information

Cache for the packages, which will improve performance of getting data from the packages

Support for the *pkg

Support for the *pkg and archives with the Solaris packages

Install, Remove, Update - Solaris packages

Install, Remove, Update feature for the Solaris packages *pkg and directories with the Solaris packages

Install, Remove, Update - Spec-files

Install, Remove, Update feature from the Spec-files

Install, Remove, Update - Blastwave.org

Install, Remove, Update feature for the Blastwave.org packaing system

Menu functionality

Add all menu functionality

View filtering

Add filtering with the view combo-box, like "Installed packages", "Packages for updating"

Better search

Make search not case-sensitive, search through files

Logging inside JPack

Move logging to the window inside JPack as described in the GUI proposal

We have the following list of tasks available, targeting 0.3 -

Progress bar

Progress bar that will inform about current progress

SVN support

Support for the svn to automatically synchronize Spec-files

Plug-ins

Make the JPack pluggable, so new packaging systems can be used as plug-ins

If you are interested in any of these tasks, contact the developers -

Michal [dot] Pryc [at] sun [dot] com

User screenshots