--- Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > package management. tools are not open, they have > > issues and they are not transparent. > > What are you talking about? > > Are you talking about this: > > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/current/
All previous responses on this point have been use Sun this or Sun that to manage updates or what not. Two different tools, one (Sun Connection) mentioned by Shawn and the tool (or the system itself) for the other system, patches, both have users (I am not a user of these) pointing out issues and given that they are paid Sun tools (is the patch manager a paid service?) I doubt you can tell me they are open and transparent. Like me give you my perspective, I think I must be miscommunicating: In Linux space you have apt or yum + deb/rpm for package management. deb or rpm alone does do some 'package management' which is basically find out what is installed, install this package, remove that package, check package...but this is not quite what I had in mind. You cannot query for available packages, you cannot use deb or rpm on their own to manage the packages on a server farm. apt or yum provide repositories and the ability to query for packages available for install and their dependent packages if any. apt and yum can both be used to handle updated packages which are just put in a separate repository marked for updates. This also adds the ability to override packages from the base distro with your own packages in your own repository. Except for nexenta, no other Open Solaris distro comes with this sort of thing. In the meantime, I will go take a look at what that wbint package contains. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
