On 8/2/21 10:58 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Monday, August 02, 2021 10:42 PM IST, Alan Coopersmith
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 8/1/21 11:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Where did IPS come from?
Sun engineers who had worked with customers and release engineering to deal with
the many problems that people had with SVR4 packaging put together a project
proposal to replace it, started prototyping, and developed the project under the
OpenSolaris community.
I have always had the belief that IPS was developed outside of Sun, and looks
like it has been validated.
As I said, it was developed in the OpenSolaris community, but the work
originated at Sun and most of it was done by Sun employees.
Please read the comments by a certain "Shawn Walker-Salas" at the link;
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/288888/what-is-solaris-ips-how-does-it-work
Shawn saw what the people at Sun were doing via the OpenSolaris community,
like it, contributed to it, and then got hired by Sun to work on it. (I
worked with Shawn for many years at both Sun and Oracle.)
It would be interesting the understand what instigated "those" people _outside_
Sun to write a package management suite and which in turn got adopted by Sun.
It would be interesting if that had happened, but it absolutely did not.
While I have been advised to avoid contacting the original team directly to
solicit comments about IPS, I'm getting this intolerable itch to do exactly
that. I don't know if I can restrain myself, so I apologize upfront to all who
might get offended by my activities towards digging up details regarding the
IPS.
They made all this material and information available many years ago - what's
the point in bothering them now just because you discovered it later?
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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