Sriram Natarajan wrote: > Hi > Can we consider the following as well > > IPS > > - package dependency mechanism should be improved so that we can > identify by a component name - rather than package name as in the > current case. for example, a joomla IPS should detect that apache > 2.2 > , mysql >= 5.0 and php >= 5.2 is available on the system and should > proceed with installation rather than looking for SUNWapch22, > SUNWmysql5, SUNWphp524 etc
Dependency mechanisms such as this are still being evaluated. I would encourage you to discuss this on pkg-discuss (read the mailing list archives first). I would not expect this to be available by November. > - ability to query and list the number of components that are using or > depending upon a given file (say /usr/lib/libopenssl.so) . I am not > sure, if we can do this currently - but a more straight forward way to > do this would be very useful. A new search mechanism was just added to the ips source repository that supports searching on just about everything known about a package. What you are asking for is beyond the information we have available at the moment though. Feedback about ips should really be discussed on pkg-discuss. Thanks, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
