On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:19:51PM -0400, Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:42:26AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > > Packaging > > Many individuals, including me, are interested in the packaging system for > Indiana. I believe that it is important to attack the problem of packages > management at the moment. We cannot conceive an operating system without > having a process for propagating and upgrading packages. I would really > like to see a packager community where we could work together to > effectively integrate software in OpenSolaris with high quality standards > (SMF daemon aware, FSH compatible). Moreover, we could then work on the > desktop part and/or other software integration. Some proposals: > > 1. First of all, it would be necessary to create a standard library for > packages 'libpkg', not to confuse with the current libpkg, with generic > functions such as 'package_add(), package_check(), etc'. There was a > post on the forum install-discuss but I am not able to find it > (Dave do you remember which post?). This would allow use to combine > multiple tools (pkg*, pkg-get) with one clean implementation. >
I know I sound like a Debian fanboy: look carefully at Debian's dpkg > 2. Re-code pkg* binaries to use libpkg. In order to accomodate linux > users, I had already suggested this in the Indiana-discuss list: create a > new tool 'pkg add|delete|info'. One tool to rule them all that would also > use libpkg. Look carefully at apt-get or aptitude and the integration with dpkg > > 3. The holy grail: 'pkg-get' that support multiple repositories, live > network upgrade, multiple sources (ftp,http,https,filesystem). On this > subject, I propose having an official core repository that ONLY contains > ON integration (base system). > I've had this for about 9 years in Debian :) > -- > Francois Saint-Jacques > http://www.networkdump.com > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
