Hi, yesterday I installed OpenSolaris 2008.05. It works perfectly, but I'm missing the huge number of packages available for Linux distributions like Ubuntu or Debian. E.g., I need Ruby with sqlite support. On a Debian or Ubuntu system (with compilers installed), I could do this:
apt-get install libsqlite3-dev apt-get install ruby-dev gem install sqlite3 Because all the packages work together seamlessly, the ruby tool "gem" will be able to find the libsqlite3 development headers and libraries and the ruby development headers and libraries and will have no problems compiling the sqlite3 extension. On OpenSolaris 2008.5 (with compilers installed), I could not install sqlite3 from the standard repository. I found it in the blastwave repository and installed it, but then gem doesn't find the sqlite3 headers, because the packages aren't coordinated. Sure, it's still possible to install ruby with sqlite support on OpenSolaris 2008.05, but it's effectively as inconvenient as it would be without a package manager. Does Sun plan to extend the pkg.opensolaris.org repository over the lifetime of 2008.05, so that it will become more and more comparable to the official Debian or Ubuntu repositories, or will that not happen before the next OpenSolaris release, or maybe not at all? Best regards, Helge This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
