On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 11:07 PM mayur...@kathe.in <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote:
> What was the system used for delivering and installing packages under > Solaris before IPS was adopted? > The SVR4 package format was presumably released in SunOS 5 (Solaris 2) since that's the first version to be based on SVR4 instead of BSD. > Where did IPS come from? > Oracle? > Who all were involved in developing IPS (names and email addresses to be > included if available)? > Have you looked here? https://github.com/oracle/solaris-ips/ > Why was IPS chosen in place of the previous package management system? > Dependencies with SVR4 were a mess. There was no concept of network repositories. You could bork a system pretty easily if the package overwrote something crucial -- whereas with IPS you can rollback to a prior ZFS snapshot pretty easily. IPS no longer requires using a different set of commands for installing versus upgrading/patching. ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf764b19e9f817c85-M9289a51bb8f8dc617c693f3a Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
