Roberto Pereyra wrote:
Hi
An option that I believe that it has not been considered in the news
distributions based on Opensolaris is to use the system of packages of
called NetBSD pkgsrc.
http://www.pkgsrc.org/
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/platforms.html#solaris
Pkgsrc support Solaris well and use standards tools to works.
The latest release support over 5657 packages.
In addition one stays frees the distriduci?n of the requirements of license GPL.
Why not use it?
roberto
Actually, there are dedicated developers and/or communities providing
Solaris repositories for at least 5 non-Sun-originated systems: pkgsrc,
Debian (Nexenta), SPS (SchilliX), and RPM. Some of these are new (or new
on Solaris), like SPS and Debian, and some have been doing Solaris for a
long time and have major followings, like pkgsrc and RPM.
I agree with Alan and Patrick -- the important thing is evaluating what
exactly are the ramifications of using each one. For example, SchilliX
(SPS), and JDS/CBE (an RPM spec-file based system) target the Solaris
SVR4 registry standard for end-user systems; as do Blastwave,
Sunfreeware, and the Companion CD. In contrast, pkgsrc, Nexenta
(Debian), and OpenPKG (an RPM based system) target their own registry
standard, requiring that it be used on end-user systems (usually in
addition to the Solaris SVR4 registry) in order to take advantage of
their repositories.
Another differentiator that I think is important is which ones
are/aren't leveraging the OpenSolaris community. From what I can tell,
pkgsrc and OpenPKG are not, and Nexenta, SchilliX, and JDS are.
Eric B
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