On 04/ 1/11 04:21 PM, Andrew Greimann wrote:
> Once again, thank you. :) I remember receiving an original answer to the
> "source" question last year.
>
> Does an equivalent to "sudo apt-get source package_name" that exists on
> Linux, exist for Solaris? For those unfamiliar, this downloads a .tar.gz
> format source code package of the package requested to the home folder in
> Linux. What's better is that one can "sudo apt-get source package1 package2"
> ... and so on, to get packages that they want.
No, because the way Solaris is built is very different. For instance, ON
is a single source tree that builds over 800 packages. Having something
like "pkg get-source ping" download the entire kernel source would be quite
surprising to most users.
Think more like BSD's "make World" than a Linux package build.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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