Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote: > Secondly, SVR4 is yet another dead end technology. SVR4 packaging was crap > back when it was widely in use, and it's still crap now. OpenIndiana and > OmniOS use IPS, Nexenta/Illumian use deb, and SmartOS dispensed with > packaging entirely. If you have SVR4 packages, rinse them through pkgsend > which will publish them to an IPS repo and problem solved. > > When people talk to me about SVR4, I imagine things like this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SunOS_4.1.1_P1270750.jpg
Do you like to tell us that you are uninformed regarding SVR4 packaging? SVR4 packaging was not in use for SunOS-4.x. BTW: There is no proof that IPS is better than SVr4 packaging and SVr4 packaging will complain when you try to create a package and a file is missing. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
