UNIX admin wrote: >Otherwise, you run the risk of never being a suitable candidate for production >environments, like banks, insurance companies, industrial corporations, the >military, government, etcetera: you simply won't have enough compatibility >with stock Solaris and will diverge too far from it. > >
Those high security institutions will never trust non-SUNW compiled code either way. >It's basically going down the same route Nexenta and BeleniX have taken. Are >you sure that that's the future you want for your distribution? > > ??? Nextenda and Belenix are two completely different things. Plus I don't see any of them "going down". Nextenda uses .deb packaging. Belenix on the other hand does use pkgadd. >No, you do not. That's solved via a "foundation package". And in this >foundation package, if you are careful and think things through, you could use >the AutoMounter facility to do the NFS mounting for you, if need be. > > ok >Ironically enough, Blastwave has such a thing, "CSWcommon", > I know. > but they haven't used it to solve that problem; they don't even *enforce* a > standard set of permissions on the directory structure that CSWcommon > delivers, or their packaging guidelines aren't stringent enough, because > there were quite a few packages from Blastwave that wanted to change > permissions. > > I once posted something to the csw list. But didn't get too friednly, nor very much, responsed. I'm btw no longer on that list. Thanks for your input, UNIXadmin. I will need more of it! Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
