On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:43, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > > that no work's been done yet. > > > > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. > > > > - A big point in favor of Solaris packaging is compatibiltiy with > > commercial Solaris and Solaris Express. > > > > Of the other three others -- rpm, pkgsrc, and tww... Thoughts? > > pkgsrc can be made to use solaris packaging via "gensolpkg" but it's not > well integrated with the build makefiles. > > I owe the gensolpkg maintainer some patches to bring it up to speed with > the recent increase in package name lengths.
So in terms relative merits of backend architectures, because the pkgsrc team doesn't (I presume) support the deb, rpm, or portage formats, the existence of "gensolpkg" sounds like a point in favor of the Solaris packaging architecture (SVR4). _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
