* Fazal Majid (fmajid at kefta.com) wrote: > Exactly. I insstalled 2008.11 on a machine with a Marvell Yukon2 NIC. > I want to install the myk driver, but it needs to be compiled first. > Unfortunately the 2008.11 install is missing SUNWhea, and I am facing > catch-22. > > At least with old-fashioned Solaris packages you could just transfer > them and install them manually. IPS is inferior in this respect.
Not inferior, just not feature complete. It's a work-in-progress. There are plans to provide an 'on-disk' format for IPS packages (repo on a DVD for instance). It just isn't implemented yet (along with a ton of other things). Whether or not it provides the same functionality as SVR4 did remains to be seen. But to call something that isn't even finished yet inferior compared to something that hasn't been improved upon significantly in years seems wrong to say the least imho. -- Glenn
