Re: [osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:40:20 -0800 Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 05:31 -0800, Roman wrote: OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc. Actually, native Solaris's PKG system is quite advanced but not eye candy and hard to use. But today OpenSolaris users has another option besides pkgsrc. Its Debian's based Nexenta OS with 18000+ packages avaialable in source form and 3000+ in binary form. (as of today). And number packages is growing. Debian repository has everything latest/greates. And pretty much all of available Debian packages compiles on NexentaOS quite easily. (remember that Debian is platform-independent technology, i.e. it has ports on Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin and now SunOS). Its actually really cool to find out that on the second day after new version of mplayer is released, corresponding Debian package gets updated to the latest. Check out http://www.gnusolaris.org Does this mean I have to install Nexenta, or I could keep on running Sun's Solaris and simply adopt your package framework? Also, how do you build packages from source? Are there options for using SunPro compilers and custom optimisation flags? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 12:08 +, Roman Duka wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:40:20 -0800 Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 05:31 -0800, Roman wrote: OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc. Actually, native Solaris's PKG system is quite advanced but not eye candy and hard to use. But today OpenSolaris users has another option besides pkgsrc. Its Debian's based Nexenta OS with 18000+ packages avaialable in source form and 3000+ in binary form. (as of today). And number packages is growing. Debian repository has everything latest/greates. And pretty much all of available Debian packages compiles on NexentaOS quite easily. (remember that Debian is platform-independent technology, i.e. it has ports on Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin and now SunOS). Its actually really cool to find out that on the second day after new version of mplayer is released, corresponding Debian package gets updated to the latest. Check out http://www.gnusolaris.org Does this mean I have to install Nexenta, or I could keep on running Sun's Solaris and simply adopt your package framework? As of now, you have to install Nexenta Alpha 1 (which is build27 based). May be there is a simple way to adopt packages. I'll think about it. Its known fact that dpkg and apt-get totally independent from the system and could be executed on Solaris without modifications or recompilations. Also, how do you build packages from source? Are there options for using SunPro compilers and custom optimisation flags? Right now we have gcc-3.x and gcc-4.x. Majority of FOSS requires gcc to build. But nobody stops you to run SunPro compiler on NexentaOS since in core NexentaOS is just yet another OpenSolaris based distribution but GNU-centric. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 05:31 -0800, Roman wrote: OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc. Actually, native Solaris's PKG system is quite advanced but not eye candy and hard to use. But today OpenSolaris users has another option besides pkgsrc. Its Debian's based Nexenta OS with 18000+ packages avaialable in source form and 3000+ in binary form. (as of today). And number packages is growing. Debian repository has everything latest/greates. And pretty much all of available Debian packages compiles on NexentaOS quite easily. (remember that Debian is platform-independent technology, i.e. it has ports on Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin and now SunOS). Its actually really cool to find out that on the second day after new version of mplayer is released, corresponding Debian package gets updated to the latest. Check out http://www.gnusolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
