Lurie wrote:
Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the
ground up is *less* work than maintaining the patches.
This is called "moving forward", IPS is based on new novel ideas, a secure package manager without any arbitrary post/pre-install scripts,
That's why lots of packages deliver their own SMF service which runs
only once.
which is fast, doesn't hog the system upon installation and is very easy to use, and upgrades the whole system at once, versus just the packages,
if your OS is not a set of packages, i.e. can't be described as set of
packages and settings, either it or your package manager is broken.
which ensures you won't have any conflicts.
IPS doesn't have anything like dpkg's divert.
If everyone would do as you suggest and just "copy everything" because it's
easier, there would be no innovations in OpenSolaris at all. And IPS *is* an innovation
in my book. I've been using IPS since its inception, for how long have you been using it ?
You definitely should contact Sun Cluster team and ask them for
feedback. Or you can try to guess why there's no ips pkg for sun cluster.
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| Alexander 'Sasha' Vlasov.
| Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today
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