On 3/22/08, Amit Kumar Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Hi Amit, To see the source you'll have to d/l it using the mercurial command (hg). It will pull in the current source base. (the source is not available as a tar.gz, AFAIK) On a solaris machine, do the following to pull in the repository. $hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/pkg/gate If you are new to what mercurial is, you can google for 'mercurial tutorial' Anil _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
