Having said all this. I'd appreciate any pointers to Emerge/Apt comparison.
Regards, Moinak. On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:42 AM, russiane39 at gmail.com <mail at > belenix.org> wrote: >> Heh, again everyone will blame me, but why we can't use gentoo emerge for >> Belenix ? Most of work is done, I was able to successfully bootstrap >> emerge-based system on Belenix 0.7.1 . Emerge will give us most flexibilty >> and ease of use. Here is links for further investigations: >> Old (probably abandoned) Alba experiment - >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Alba_Experiment >> Maintained Gentoo Prefix for Solaris - >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml > > Suggestions are always welcome. However I personally dislike emerge. > I do not like my box spending days compiling stuff just to upgrade. In > addition the OpenSolaris software ecosystem is kind of unique in that > it is divided up into different consolidations with each using it's own > build > mechanism. It is not worthwhile or practical to try and unifiy all those > disparate build mechanisms to the Emerge framework. What is needed > is a purely Binary packaging setup separate from the build systems. In > this I agree with the viewpoints of the IPS folks. > > While Emerge can handle binary packages it's main value is in tuning > builds for the platform. In addition it is more work to integrate emerge > with the OpenSolaris features like ZFS and Zones. > So I still believe the Nexenta APT/Dpkg mechanism is extremely robust > and an excellent port. Biggest of all, almost all of the heavy lifting has > already been done, it is already tuned for utilizing ZFS and supporting > Zones. All that needs to be done is to make it work properly with the > Snap Upgrade framework. > > Even though this is a longer term change and not to be done right now > I am at the verge of putting the lid on IPS. It is an attempt to re-invent a > very large wheel and I do not agree to some of the design choices among > other problems. I have read through most of the observations/reasoning > around IPS and do not see any point that is not addressed by the major > existing mainstream packaging systems. > > Regards, > Moinak, > > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
