On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, TJ Yang wrote: > > There are many discussions happened recently on the matter of package > management system on Solaris/OpenSolaris, I am glad to see many > interests to address the issue of outdated PMS on Opensolaris. > [...]
TJ, The project goal states "... provide OpenSolaris OS a modern package management system." It seems to assume that Sun will definitely never open-source its new (and evolving) package update system, Sun Update Connection (which is based on Sun's patch tools and technologies). I disagree with that premise. I think there is a possibility that this technology will be open-sourced. Albert White wrote a nice overview of Sun Update Connection technologies (in an OpenSolaris context) on his blog. See: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/albertw?entry=updaing_software_in_the_open Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
