On Wednesday 21 March 2007 06:18 am, Eric Boutilier wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > On Monday 19 March 2007 05:13 pm, David Lloyd wrote: > >> Joe, > >> > >>>> Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P > >>> > >>> Isn't that Nexenta? Had to say it. > >> > >> I don't want the Ubuntu Userland on an OpenSolaris code base. I'd prefer > >> a distribution as close to Sun's release of Sun Solaris (tm) that I can > >> get but without Sun Solaris', errrm, wonderful? package management. > > > > Why do you care about the packaging system, if it works? IOW, do you > > really care about what type of package is used if packaging in Solaris > > worked as it should, with dependencies resolving properly? > > > > I don't think you really care about .deb packages either, what I *think* > > you're saying is "give me a packaging system that works like apt does!", > > But that just brings us back to Joe's original point: > > Isn't that Nexenta?
Not really, although Nexenta does qualify with that statement. SysV packages would be just as good, if they resolved dependencies properly, IMO. I see nothing wrong with SysV packages which we use today, if they could be modified to handle the small addition we might need, for versioning and dependencies, for instance. This is all a part of the packaging project, AFAIK. I'll move this over to install-discuss, per Dave Miner's suggestion. > (Question for the future OGB: does a Project/Community have to be hosted on > opensolaris.org in order to qualify its members for Core Contributor > status?) I say it doesn't matter as much where it exists, as much as it matters what it contains. Any project could easily be added to OpenSolaris.org to gain such status if that was an issue, but I see no reason why it should. Nexenta, for instance, might be a good example. Let's say they have a community on OpenSolaris.org, but really do all of their development on gnusolaris.org. The OpenSolaris community would only be a placeholder, for the most part. This still doesn't mean that Nexenta is not an OpenSolaris project. Hope that makes sense. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company!
