Hello, I am interested in getting a theoretical background of the working of IPS (something more than that there is a client & server interacting via HTTP/(s)) so as to enable me to do a comparative study of the package management systems such as APT, YUM and that of OpenSolaris (Indiana). I got an overview of the working, but only slightly from this doc at http://opensolaris.org/sc/src/pkg/gate/doc/one-pager-main.txt
I would appreciate some insights into: 1. Is this is the first time that a network based packaging system is available in (Open)Solaris ? 2. The contents/meta-data/.. of the IPS packages AFAIK, IPS is coded in Python, but I downloaded the source code of installation tools from here at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/current/install-src-m10.tar.bz2 and all I see is C code in the /usr/src/cmd.. I am a newbie into all this. So I would really appreciate some answers to my queries. Thanks, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha *NetBeans Community Docs Coordinator* Writer, Programmer, Researcher http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com http://amitksaha.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
