On 05/03/12 15:20, DaB. wrote:
> In puppet (our server-managment-programm) I have now a HUGE list of liberies 
> and software to install for the solaris-server – but the names of the 
> packages 
> does not match with the debian-package-names of course. I would need weeks to 
> figure out what belongs to what – I do not have to time (and to admit: also 
> not 
> the motivation) to do this.
Is the list available somewhere, to crowdsource the mapping?
(the plan of starting from basic things looks good, too)



> At the end, only the following stuff will remain at willow:
> *tools of people who are <s>too lazy</s>too busy to move their stuff
> *tools which can not run on Debian for some reasons
> *tools of users who left the TS

Remember that some TS-specific programs like setpass or acctrenew can
only work in Solaris. They don't seem hard to rewrite, but it's
something to keep into account.


> That is a nice plan, but it would not work, because most users are not 
> capable 
> to tell what liberies they need. And it is BTW not a problem to have a libery 
> installed that is not used (because we have enough free space for that).

Some automatic non-exhaustive dependency check would be easy. ldd on elf
files, grep import on .py ones, etc.

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