On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:41 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know what package-level compatability you are talking about... > > Today, *Solaris software distributes in next ways: > > > > 1) source tarball > > 2) binary tarball > > 3) autoextracting scripts .sh > > 4) SVR4 packages > > 5) custom installers > > > > I think it will be unfortunate if SVR4 packaging will be a requirement > > for OpenSolaris compatability... Neither distribution vendors nor > > software vendors should not be forced by this. IMHO. If software vendor > > decides to release .deb packages for Nexenta GNU/Solaris, why not? > > If a software vendor releases SVr4 packages for Solaris and you cannot > install these packages on Nexenta, I would call Nexenta non-Solaris compliant. > > If a software vendor releases .deb packages only, they cannot be for Solaris > as the related packaging software is not part of the 'on-board software' on > Solaris.
... and if software vendor releases custom installer and you can install software on any OpenSolaris based distro, how would we call those distros than, compliant or still not? I guess we need to spell out what "OpenSolaris compliant distro" is. i.e. to which degree distro could be different and still we can call it to be compliant. I don't think SVr4 compatability is the requirement. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
