Eric Boutilier wrote:
pkgsrc on solaris looks very interesting to me, out of all the
systems we have to choose from it seems to hit the sweet spot as far
as my limited knowledge of pm goes...
In light of all the recent work that's been done to bring Debian PM
(apt) and Debian source repository support to Solaris, what would be
the advantage to using pkgsrc over Debian? (That is, unless you're
talking about having two package registries -- e.g. Sun SVR4 + pkgsrc
-- inter-operating with each other.)
In other words, if there is interest in having OpenSolaris systems
that completely supplant the SVR4 package registry/system with
something else, wouldn't it be more effective to forgo pkgsrc in favor
of Debian/apt at this point?
A couple of doubts:
There were issues/concerns with the Debian community regarding the
use of dpkg/apt in
OpenSolaris. Have those been resolved ? This would determine future
upstream acceptance
of dpkg OpenSolaris port.
The current dpkg repository that is available (Nexenta) is built for
a GNU/Solaris setup and
is not suitable for a Solaris compatible OpenSolaris distro.
Regards,
Moinak.
--Eric
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