Philip Brown wrote:
> Brian Gupta wrote:
>> As I am aware there are no other proposals before the ARC for guidance
>> in creating or adopting an OpenSolaris packaging system. Please
>> understand, that unlike many other packaging efforts in the
>> OpenSolaris/Solaris technical sphere (pkg-get, apt-clone/get, rpm,
>> pkgsource, ips), we seek to work within the guidelines of the existing
>> ARC, and are trying to follow the guideline "ARC early and ARC often".
>> (Unless I am misunderstanding "how things get done around here").
>>
>
> Ahh.. as the author of pkg-get, I think I should put in a small word here :-)
>
> I am very happy to "work within the guidelines of the existing ARC",
> vis-a-vis pkg-get.
> As a matter of fact, sun has approached me multiple times, with, "would you
> be interested in having pkg-get included with Solaris?"
> And my response was always "Certainly! Please let me know if there's
> anything I need to change about it, what you are looking for, etc. And I
> will be happy to help you out with suggestions on integration methods, if
> you wish".
>
> The only response and feedback I have gotten, after those initial contacts,
> was, "well, it would be nice if it had a gui".
>
> That was the ONLY comment. No, "you should discuss with the ARC". No, "well,
> this bit here violates some ARC principles...".
> Nothing.
I don't know who those people were or why they dropped the ball, but if
you wanted to push it in from outside instead of relying on someone at
Sun to decide they want to do all the work themselves to pull it in,
that's a different kettle of fish, and something we can discuss how to do.
For actual Solaris integration, I suspect figuring out what to do about
which repositories to pull from by default, if any, and how that relates
to Sun's support model & legal requirements, is the part Sun is going to
have to think hardest about - but I'm not sure if that's a problem for
OpenSolaris.
There's still the open question about how much effort it's worth putting
into adding a repository system around pkgadd given the efforts to replace
SVR4 packaging with a new system with integrated repository support, but
that's up to the people actually putting in the effort to decide if it's a
productive use of their time, not ours to dictate.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
