On Monday, August 02, 2021 10:42 PM IST, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/21 11:06 PM, mayur...@kathe.in wrote: > > > Where did IPS come from? > > Sun engineers who had worked with customers and release engineering to deal > with > the many problems that people had with SVR4 packaging put together a project > proposal to replace it, started prototyping, and developed the project under > the > OpenSolaris community. I have always had the belief that IPS was developed outside of Sun, and looks like it has been validated. Please read the comments by a certain "Shawn Walker-Salas" at the link; https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/288888/what-is-solaris-ips-how-does-it-work It would be interesting the understand what instigated "those" people _outside_ Sun to write a package management suite and which in turn got adopted by Sun. While I have been advised to avoid contacting the original team directly to solicit comments about IPS, I'm getting this intolerable itch to do exactly that. I don't know if I can restrain myself, so I apologize upfront to all who might get offended by my activities towards digging up details regarding the IPS. Cheers. ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf764b19e9f817c85-M36bbea08416f66c50ce27d4e Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
