The solution: - tarball created by the creator company, AND.. - Package in the format every distro wants to have it, made from the tarball by their comunities.
I know that some companies make their own .tgz, .deb,.rpm, .pkg, etc, but this is up to that companies. Best regards, HeCSa. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Shawn Walker<swalker at opensolaris.org> > wrote: > > > > As for OpenSolaris distributions that don't embrace IPS; I think they > will > > be at a severe disadvantage, but I'm biased :) I'm also of the belief > that > > third-party vendors would rather use a supported packaging system > published > > by Sun. > > > > Anything commercially supported will indeed be followed, and should > indeed be followed, by vendors of software. Sun, however, need not be > the only provider of such support, and IPS need not be the only such > supported packaging system. > > As you should be aware (since you're writing from an @opensolaris.org > account), there is value in exploring alternative formats in an open > and community friendly manner, please let us community distros do > that. > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -- HeCSa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20090612/e2e6a064/attachment.html>
