On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:57:42PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: > > I'm not sure Nexenta's implementation is the way to go though. It seems > > to me that Phil's pkg-get -- being designed around Sun's implementation > > of the SVr4 packaging standard -- seems like the better candidate, or > > maybe something new based on the patch software (that is currently used > > for updating Solaris)... > > > > We'd welcome discussion and work on any of these alternatives over in > the Install and Packaging community. Well, perhaps not the patch > alternative, at least not at this time - the patch technology is just > sooo fragile...
Solaris patching isnt particularly bad. [It has its faults, but its been in use for over a decade now] Debian's, from what I here, is the "fragile" one. It's too bad that pkg-get doesnt support downloading updates via patches though... sigh... it's not really something that blastwave needs, so it's not a priority for me. But if someone at Sun were to approach me, and suggest, "hey, we'd like to use pkg-get to handle patches as well, what do you think of this high-level approach.....?", I would be more than willing to consider it. PS: I'm trimming out the botched trailing "Re:" in the middle of the subject line, to try to get this thread to sort better by subject. Hopefully, others will do the same. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
