Hi Folks.

I may be in the wrong forum here but here goes.

I have seen entries on this topic over the web extolling the virtues of 
OpenCSW and Blastwave as yum and apt-get equivalents for Solaris. The 
problem I run into is the dependency tree for these products. I have been 
looking at OpenCSW and see it requires many packages from OpenCSW mirrors 
to run up pkgutil. In a largish environment with fairly strict policies on 
using pre-compiled binaries from external sources, I end up with SMC / CSW 
/ SUNW / <our internal pkgs> in the mix and some unhappy legal / security 
staff.

The idea I would like to put forward is to write a wrapper  for 
pkgadd/pkgrm/pkginfo/etc.. in Ruby. Keeping it as separate from puppet as 
yum and apt-get to keep the model standard with a repo residing on a web 
server with a catalog. My reason for Ruby is that the solaris host that is 
a puppet client will already have Ruby installed so I have no extra guff to 
install on my closely guarded clients.

At this stage it is just something I was thinking about this morning. I 
would like to know if there is any interest in here for such a thing ? Am I 
insane ? Has it already been done ?

Regards - Geoff


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