On 08/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
packages and repositories are too different things. apt and yum are repository tools.
Yes, I know that, but I don't see how that is relevant.
There goes your dist upgrade for a driver being overkill and highly unlikely when there does not appear to be a kernel package available to let you just upgrade the kernel.
I fail to see how you can reach that conclusion, and yes, a dist-upgrade is still overkill. A dist-upgrade implies more than just a kernel upgrade. Your connections and conclusions make no sense. A dist-upgrade would be like going from Solaris 10 GA -> Solaris 10 Update 3; not just upgrading the kernel for a new driver, which is rarely necessary (from what I've seen).
Shawn, you have provided absolutely no information that comes close to what you can get with apt + dpkg or yum + rpm. Is there any '???' + pkg?
I didn't know I was trying to. If you are asking, "is there a tool *exactly* like apt-get that comes with the release version of Solaris 10?" No, there is not. However, there is an update management tool. "Is there a tool like dpkg?" Yes, since dpkg is just a package manager; Solaris has package management tools. Most of your confusion seems to stem around not understanding the updates are handled differently for the Community and Developer releases of Solaris than the "official" release. The official release has an update manager that provides new driver, fixes, patches, etc. The Community and Developer releases do not; if you want to upgrade with those, you use the upgrade functionality provided by the installer with each new release. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
