Greetings, I've spent the past few weeks looking into various solutions for a packaging system for the new Solaris 10 environment I'm dealing with and OpenPKG seems to be the answer.
However, I have a few questions I was hoping someone could answer (yes, I've read the FAQ and the mailing list archives). Am I correct in saying that you can't use the binary packages provided by OpenPKG.org if you build and install openpkg in your own custom prefix (i.e. not /openpkg, but /opt/foo for example)? I saw a reference to openpkg-tool when someone mentioned apt-get in the past. Currently I am partly responsible for a set of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers that have their software managed through an apt-get repository. I am planning on moving everything I can to Solaris 10 soon. As such, I was wondering if it was possible to use apt-get with OpenPKG or if an equivalent tool was available. Let me further clarify: We go to great pains to ensure that each one of our systems is identical in everything but hostname and IP, and for efficiency purposes, we build a set of packages on a staging server, and then roll those updates out to a set of production servers using apt-get. So binary packages are necessary to minimize downtime and useful since all machines are identical in hardware and configuration (save hostname and IP). The reason why I ask about this at all is that it appears that installing an OpenPKG rpm isn't as simple as 'openpkg rpm -i http://some/url/myopenpkg.rpm' in the sense that it doesn't automatically fetch the other packages needed to install the specified package from the corresponding specified URL. It appears to assume that you already have the pre-requisites for the specified package installed. Thoughts , help, and suggestions from others that have gone down this 'road' before would be most welcome. Thanks, Shawn -- http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [email protected]
