Yes that's a problem. But I think this issue can be resolved if we have
RELEASEs that comes out every 6 months. Just like FreeBSD does.
Currently AFAIK every build is out in every 2 weeks which is too short
to hanlde RELEASEs.
I hope someday we will use nightly and Install scripts just like make
world in FreeBSD. In FreeBSD ( I am sure most of you know that) every 6
months RELEASE ISO's are build (there is also a thought to make releases
every 3 months) and from source tree we issue a few command to build
latest sources (using cvsup and make world in /usr/src and after that
build and install kernel in /usr/src/sys/... ) without waiting RELEASES.
Also in FreeBSD you can build your nightly ISOs..
Sorry if I wrote too much about FreeBSD but its update system is the
best I think because there is no interval level between source and
binaries thus makes everything very simple.
Ian Collins wrote:
Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
What if I am far away from my server and I need to install extra
Solaris Software ( I thik the exact term is bundled software for
SUNW* packages). Which is exactly my case. I want to install those
packages required my system at home. I want to compile JDS but since
I haven't installed that bundled softwares I have no way to install
it because I can only ssh to my home system.
Having an ftp or http system also helps to install Solaris directly
from FTP sites around globe. I mainly come from Open Source world
that is why
I want something like that. But since Solaris is ``Open'' know that
will be requested by more users as the time goes by.
Fair point, but I can see problems with inconsistent versions and
patches.
Ian
Ian Collins wrote:
Not really, everything is on the CDs, which you have used to do the
basic install. What is there to be gained by an ftp site?
Ian
Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
I am sure that I haven't installed all packages. But isn't it nice
if we have a ftp or http site to install that missing packages?
Just like other
Open Source projects..
Ian Collins wrote:
Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
Hi,
Is there a repository (ftp,http or rsync) that I can install
Solaris packages from?
Yes, your install CDs. Maybe you didn't do a full install?
I'm not sure which CDs these will be on, but they will be there.
Ian.
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