The Desktop community already has the pkgbuild tool to build RPM-style
spec files on OpenSolaris, and is working on producing IPS packages from
that. The related spec-files-extra project has a large repository of
spec files already ported to Solaris (few Linux RPM specs just build as
is, with no changes required).
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume wrote:
> The thing is that you have pkgbuild or OpenPkg which can build or
> install from rpms thus addressing user needs through package
> interoperability. You normally don't have to apply a lot of effort by
> adding more packages when there's several rpm repositories online that
> are used in other scenarios. With a working framework getting most
> applications to work as on any other rpm based platform is worth
> shouting about - for depending on your point of view and development
> issues. It would be interesting to see how this is addressed in
> OpenSolaris.
>
> 2009/8/18 Che Kristo <c...@opensolaris.org>:
>> What is the isue you are trying to address exactly anyway? If we are missing
>> packages our efforts would be better spent on getting those packages into
>> the existing framework rather than complicating our package management by
>> introducing additional frameworks.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume
>> <schir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It would be great to have the OpenPkg package management system
>>> integrated with opensolaris' IPS GUI which allows users to access
>>> binaries in RPM format for cross platform compatibility, it should
>>> make it easier to get programs from Fedora/Redhat linux platforms to
>>> run on opensolaris helping users moving from linux to opensolaris with
>>> a probable added benefit of user confidence.
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