T.J. Yang wrote: >> From: Casper.Dik at Sun.COM ... >> >> But does it use "pkgadd" and the Solaris native package database? > > Yes. TWW's pkg-inst when running on Solaris will call up pkgadd to do the > installation so the package registry will be inserted into /var/sadm/pkg. > pkg-rm will call up pkgrm and pkg-info will call up pkginfo. > > The most beautiful part is that I only need to know these three same > commands (pkg-inst,pkg-rm and pkg-info) for package management work across > most Unix platforms. A need that Sun don't care about but IT sysadm/manager > will appreciate. >
I think we'd be open to working to a cross-platform package management interface standard, but we can't do it in a vacuum. If the other platform vendors aren't interested, then we don't gain much for the effort, and right now we have enough other things to do that I don't feel we could take the lead on pushing for such a thing. Honestly, I don't have any feedback from customers (other than TJ) saying that this is something they really want us to do. Dave
