On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:19:11AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > 1) There is no common packaging system that meets the needs of the community > in use today. We need to come up with one that supports dependencies, > updates, and network repositories. (Mirrors are welcome). All parts of > Solaris will need to be repackaged with this standard. SFW will be of > supported of course, as will unsupported packages. All packages will closely > coordinate with Project managers who are OpenSolaris members. Also there is > a question as to whether SYSV Package tools can be open sourced. Without > that we can't do much with the existing tools, and might have to seriously > start thinking about a completely new packaging system.
This is already underway. Stephen and I are doing some evaluations and hope to have a better idea of where we're headed within the next month or so. But like Laca said, this is mostly orthogonal to the bulk of this discussion. Danek
