Contrib Package Requirements

Contrib Package Requirements

 Before a package is promoted to the OpenSolaris contrib repository, the following requirements must be satisfied:

1. Package built successfully
2. Package has positive (+1) vote from two approvers and no negative (-1) votes
3. If the submitter is a Sun employee, the Open Source Review (OSR), must be approved.
4. All package dependencies listed as 'Requires:' in the spec file must appear in the manifest. (To verify this, browse to the manifest on the IPS web interface or view it from the pkg command line:

 pkg contents -r -m {package fmri} | grep depend

1. The package must install without errors.
2. The package must uninstall without errors.
3. The package metadata must be of the form <pre><scheme>:<classifiction> Where scheme is "org.opensolaris.category.2008" and classification is anything from here:
   http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/contributing/ipsclass/
    For example:
    org.opensolaris.category.2008:Applications/Accessories
    org.opensolaris.category.2008:Destkop/Libraries
4. The package should not already exist in another pkg.opensolaris.org repository. You should search these repositories to make sure there isn't a duplicate:
   pkg.opensolaris.org/release
   pkg.opensolaris.org/dev
   pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib
   pkg.opensolaris.org/extra

 Once these requirements have been made, someone must follow the Contrib Promotion Process in order to push the eligible packages into contrib.