On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > However replacing existing software by new one is usually a suboptimal >> > decision. >> > IPS fixed some problems from the SVr4 package system, but introduced a lot >> > of >> > new bugs that never have been present with pkgadd. >> >> IPS was a wrong strategic move by SUN. That too the IPS folks were >> not willing >> to listen to people who were intimately familiar with packaging and >> software >> distribution in general. The design was broken from the start. It >> was a colossal >> waste of time and money by SUN. >> So I cannot fully agree with your assertion that "new replacements > ^^^ > > I cannot see a relation here.... Did you mean "yet"? >
Ah, sorry for the typo. I did mean "yet". > >> > I cannot see that this support svr4 packages, but I am shure it will not >> > support IPS. So did you think about the fact that Illumos only supports >> > IPS? >> > >> >> Yes and I can pull the metadata out of the IPS package defs and use it to >> construct packages in another format. > > I see less meta data in IPS than I see in tge SVr4 package system. Do you like > to live with the limited information from IPS? > Interesting. I thought IPS had more metadata. Can you give an example ? Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ belenix-discuss mailing list http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
