On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Lurie <y...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: >> and in the end, we have yet-another-package-manager. > > while I agree with you on some of the points, I have to say that I love IPS > and how it uses ZFS, if the code would have been based off some Linux package > manager then the changes would never go upstream due to the lack of bootable > clones/snapshots.
And the BeleniX package manager (spkg) that I put in 6 months of part-time effort has all these same features, zfs cloning, multiple boot envs and more like transaction pause and resume, currently with the exception of change handling and non-root user image support, primarily because it is a layer over SVR4 which we will be dumping shortly anyway. The ZFS cloning features are provided by the Boot Environment Management library which is a part of the Caimain Installer suite, not IPS. I really do not understand why is it not possible to enhance an existing mature package manager and put in all these features in a modular fashion rather than re-inventing 15 years of community work on packaging. Modular features should be able to detect the platform and enable appropriate functionality. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
