Hi,
find attached a bdist_sunpkg distutils command class
that implements creating a sun solaris package.

This has been based on the python2.3 distutils but
should work with newer ones, too.

Note that a small patch to file_util is needed that
adds the verbose/dry_run capabilities to the write_file
function.

At the moment, fancy things like dependency scripts and
stuff are not supported.

Holger

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Are you willing to fill out the contribution form, at

http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/

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I'm currently clarifying this with my employer

I suppose we have to reject this request.

For distutils, it is too late, we don’t add new features.

In distutils2, we have removed bdist_rpm and rejected bdist_deb (#1054967), with the rationale that OS-specific formats are best made by tools that are customized by the OS, play well with policies and other tools, and have a shorter release cycle than Python. For the case of Solaris, I gather that there are at least five flavors of this OS (well, four if you count OpenSolaris dead), each one having various releases. I don’t know the span of the differences between versions and flavors, but I guess that it’s a situation similar to RPM. Adding to that the lack of contributor agreement, I think we won’t add this command to distutils2 either.

Tarek, please correct me if I’m wrong or reject the bug if I’m right.

Holger, sorry your work has to be rejected.

> Holger, sorry your work has to be rejected.

No harm done - kind of paradoxical that my employer allowed me to release the code into the wild but hasn't been willing to let me sign the contribution form, in 4 years.

So it's at least out in the open and maybe useful to some (though rather outdated) - and could be moved into some solaris-py bdist_* project.