a b writes: > > and there are > > some obscure ones (such as the ".u" and ".v" architecture-specific > > packages). > > Aaahhh! Now things are getting to be really interesting! I love such arcane > knowledge, > if you don't mind, please share insight on what these meant, if you have any.
They're still around. The ".u" is for sun4u and ".v" is for sun4v. For example, if you look a the SPARC Solaris install media, you'll see two packages, one named "SUNWcar.u" and the other named "SUNWcar.v". One has "ARCH=sparc.sun4u" and the other has "ARCH=sparc.sun4v". The installer has some magic to make sure that the right ones are installed. > IPS is long ways away from being useful, and it's slow; on top of that, they > really shot > themselves in the foot with setting GNU to be the default. IPS is a work in progress. They're nowhere near done, so I think it's pretty unfair to judge them. It would be better at this point to contribute constructively (e.g., if you find a performance problem, analyze it, and fix it). For what it's worth, I'm slowly converting my systems over from SX:CE to the OpenSolaris distribution. It's tough work, but given the direction things are going, I think it'll eventually be worthwhile. And since I have simple control over my own path by setting $PATH, the "GNU by default" thing never really bugged me. I was more harmed by ancient (and awful) scripts of mine finally going kablooie and forcing me to fix the old bugs they had. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carl...@sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
