On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Assuming you mean the five I identified as planning (AFAICT) > > redistributable distros: > > > > Blastware > > JDS/GNOME + KDE > > Pkgsrc > > Portage > > SchilliX > > > > > ... have anything in common. The answer to that question should be the > > > focus of this discussion. > > > > The answer is that for all five there is nothing in common between > > their source package architecture designs. :-( > > As I said before, I would be happy if there was exchange of know how > between the different source package systems.
Sure, and I suspect it's safe to assume that advocates of the other four systems feel the same way. > > As for their binary package architecture/registries, SchilliX, > > Blastwave, and JDS have, or plan to have the same one; namely, the > > Solaris packaging standard (customized SVR4). Portage and Pkgsrc have > > their own design (but I should add that Portage provides a tool for > > converting to the Solaris package standard). > > SchilliX currently uses tar archives for binary packages but the way to > produce > them is close to the way SVR4 packages are created. > > I would use pkgadd after it becomes freely distributable and there is a grant > that the source will be made available in the future. It makes no sense to > depend on freely distributable without the grant for getting the source. > This is for consistency and for the possibility to support new architectures > such as PPC. Well (as I'm sure you know) I'm in complete agreement with that. > P.S. Did I miss something with the JDS/GNOME + KDE distribution plans? > I did not see a connection between the plans for working on freely > distributable JDS GUI and a OpenSolaris distribution.J?rg Yeah I might be jumping the gun a little there because I don't think the JDS/GNOME + KDE community has actually had a discussion yet about whether to do a redistributable distro. I bet a lot of people have assumed that that's one of their main goals though. So just thinking out loud here... One logical alternative for them would be to strictly target the Nevada gate; thus, their work would emerge via the "Solaris Express distro" and "Sun Solaris distro". And I suppose in parallel they could easily maintain a similar but separate build for Solaris 10 -- i.e. a community-supported alternative to whatever is the current Sun-supported JDS release. Hmm, actually the latter could even be "shipped" as a set of community-supported patches, no? Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
