Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Patrick Mauritz
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo, sunfreeware, etc...all build their own userland. GNU/OpenSolaris does the same in it's own way. this is why I built my own

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Patrick Mauritz
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:08, Dennis Clarke wrote: A build system is being worked on that results in scripts and diffs being available also. good to know! As for not being open. Just join. You can shell account and look around. How closed is that? the just join part is what makes it closed.

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 11/21/05, Patrick Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:08, Dennis Clarke wrote: A build system is being worked on that results in scripts and diffs being available also. good to know! As for not being open. Just join. You can shell account and look around. How

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo, sunfreeware, etc...all build their own userland.

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 10:25 am, Eric Boutilier wrote: With this in mind, I'm thinking maybe SchilliX, Nexenta, and JDS won't suffer from the problem Alan sites above...? The key will be in getting the core libs into a common location. The more

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread John Weekley
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:23, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo, sunfreeware,

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 00:29 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 11/21/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 06:37 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo,

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Stefan Teleman wrote: On 11/21/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped...] Right. But ultimately if we want to really work together, it would be nice if we had a common set of libraries that everyone could use, and so that we shouldn't have so many sets of libs floating around our

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-21 Thread Paul Gress
Erast Benson wrote: Also putting too much in OSOL LCD(OpenSolaris least common denominator) will break distribution's individuality. So, please lets be careful here. Then maybe there needs to be another distribution. Solaris LCD. Or maybe, when installing software, you would check for

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-18 Thread Eric Boutilier
Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hi An option that I believe that it has not been considered in the news distributions based on Opensolaris is to use the system of packages of called NetBSD pkgsrc. http://www.pkgsrc.org/ http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/platforms.html#solaris Pkgsrc support

[osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-17 Thread Roberto Pereyra
Hi An option that I believe that it has not been considered in the news distributions based on Opensolaris is to use the system of packages of called NetBSD pkgsrc. http://www.pkgsrc.org/ http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/platforms.html#solaris Pkgsrc support Solaris well and use

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-17 Thread Patrick Mauritz
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:23, Roberto Pereyra wrote: Why not use it? there are people using it. As for the GPL requirement, I assume you refer to the debian based distro. It seems, they want to have a debian-style distro, and pkgsrc won't help them in any way. As for why not using pkgsrc, there

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-17 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thursday 17 November 2005 05:58 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote: As for why not using pkgsrc, there are many things to consider: eg. that pkgsrc builds basically your whole userland again (at least the large chunks: yet another perl installation, yet another python, ..) This is currently a