Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]> wrote: > > However replacing existing software by new one is usually a suboptimal > > decision. > > IPS fixed some problems from the SVr4 package system, but introduced a lot > > of > > new bugs that never have been present with pkgadd. > > IPS was a wrong strategic move by SUN. That too the IPS folks were > not willing > to listen to people who were intimately familiar with packaging and > software > distribution in general. The design was broken from the start. It > was a colossal > waste of time and money by SUN. > So I cannot fully agree with your assertion that "new replacements ^^^
I cannot see a relation here.... Did you mean "yet"? > > pkgadd manages packages, so what do you understand by package management? > > Many things. Please read my blog entry I posted earlier for the full > details. Do you mean "http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/the-belenix-package-manager/";? I cannot see what I like to know at that place. > I do not consider IPS worthwhile. So we seem to agree here. > > I cannot see that this support svr4 packages, but I am shure it will not > > support IPS. So did you think about the fact that Illumos only supports IPS? > > > > Yes and I can pull the metadata out of the IPS package defs and use it to > construct packages in another format. I see less meta data in IPS than I see in tge SVr4 package system. Do you like to live with the limited information from IPS? Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ belenix-discuss mailing list http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
