On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 08:53 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > 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 ?
Sure: http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2005/11/msg00017.html http://lists.debian.org/deity/2005/11/msg00139.html > This would determine future upstream acceptance of dpkg OpenSolaris port. I think changes already accepted. At any rate, changes we did are quite trivial and could be easily maintained as a set of separate patches. > 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. that is not true. dpkg and apt-get are highly configurable software and could be easilly used in native Solaris enviornment. I actually tried it myself and managed some Nevada software with dpkg quite succesfully. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
