Hi! Before any word, excuse my English :-) > > I'm a bit late to that thread, but - what is an IPS package? I know of > > IPS repositories, sure, but never seen anything .ips?
> > > > Also, I've never seen any commercial vendors out there using that kind > > of distribution model. In my experience, they make actual files > > downloadable, or even more commonly, they send a media. It's not very usual in the open source communities to develop something, and I'm not talking about an operating system, and send the media to every country of the world, because they are, of course, non-profit developer groups. (...) > > > The packaging system has never been a user choice, really. If you want > to run Sun's OpenSolaris distro we'll have to adopt IPS. Same was true > for RPM or SysV. > I can download .tar.gz for slackware, .deb for Debian or Ubuntu, .rpm for RH, Suse, etc. I didn't find a way to download a package linked from a .p5i link. (...) > benr. Ben, a new member of our community sent us a mail asking for a simple way to install a network driver for his on board Atteros L2 network card. We downloaded the source code of the drivers from some site, and then had the need of COPYING a gcc compiler to his machine, because we had no option for downloading the gcc packages, and then install them. IPS could be great, and I think in this way, but having a plan "B" for this situations could be great too. > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss Thanks, and best regards, HeCSa.
