To provide efficient Debian-style packaging, the environment must be Debian-compatible. Means, it is just absolutely not enough grub SXCR and build apt-get/dpkg for it, there is much more to it which is hidden and likely you will end up with the system full of hacks.
That is why Nexenta built from scratch to provide clean Debian environment at its core. Still many of SUNW* packages well supported, though, package bootstrapping is totally different. I don't think NCP 1.0 will ever happen to be ported to sparc64, but with enough companies/developers backing up sparc architecture, we can *try* to do it for NCP 2.0 this year. We need one OSS developer to start this effort. If somebody interested, please step up. On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:47 +1100, Christopher Vance wrote: > Any chance of getting Nexenta stuff on SPARC? > > My workplace is moving to Solaris 10 for zones, and we're seriously > looking at using Debian-style packaging alongside Sun's supported > packages. > > Any chance there's some Nexenta goodness out there for SPARC? > > We're happy to rebuild from sources, but don't (yet?) want Solaris > >10, don't want Intel/AMD arch, and don't want to replace SUNW > packages when they do what we want. (Our outsourced production support > groks SUNW, so we only want to use Debian-style packaging for things > Sun doesn't ship, or where their version is decrepit enough to > replace.) > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
