On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 23:01 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 08:53 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > > > > > >> 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. > > > > > Well, for sure you folks have ported apt/dpkg to OpenSolaris and it > works fine. I have used dpkg > in the past and of course it is among the best. But my point was > about the the repository used by > Nexenta. Since it is a repository built for a complete GNU userland, > the packages will fail to work > 100% for a distro which uses the complete OpenSolaris userland and > GNU/OSS add-on software.
Oh, sure. Software in Nexenta's APT repository needs to be fixed and rebuild in that case. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
