On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Magnus Forsberg wrote: > Thinking about OpenSolaris. It has no use of these packaging systems > that aim of multi-platform-OS-binary level modularity compability PMSs. > > From my point of view what's needed in OpenSolaris is something that is > focused on the end user, and the ability customize. I believe that is > one of the biggest reasons of the SRPMs success. This time the focus > has to be on OpenSolaris and its coming distributions. Schillix is the > first distribution, and I don't know which PMS Schillix its meant to > support...
Their source/build system is the SchilliX SPS system, and, last I heard the binary package format supported will be the Sun standard, SVR4 packages. Eric > But we don't want a mixture of Sun svr4 pkg, rpm, pkgsrc, and all of > the others... in each distribution. > > About the source part of PMS, RPM is a great alternative. As a > developer, administrator and user, this a great system to provide these > abilities that is lacking in the SVR4 system today. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
