Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request
please give me some links to decent to thorough/exhaustive open solaris documentation or normal to advanced user guide that covers everything we need to know to use open solaris(I just used windows without any guide. All things are installed using GUI, not CUI, with good enough information,options and prudent requests from user.). I don't know that soalris reinstallation does not require any format of partition where an operating system is installed. Usually, upgrade does not require format of partition. What will happen if upgrade or reinstallation is giving problems and home directory is in the partition where the operating system is installed? I think then we may have to take backup of settings in our home directory. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request
upgrade of operating system does not require reinstallation of user apps. http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/linux-torvalds-on-linux-distri.html Go thru what linus torvalds tell about ease of installation. I copy pasted 2 and third paras of grey coloured portion of interview page. And when it comes to distributions, ease of installation has actually been one of my main issues - I'm a technical person, but I have a very specific area of interest, and I don't want to fight the rest. So the only distributions I have actively avoided are the ones that are known to be overly technical - like the ones that encourage you to compile your own programs etc. Yeah, I can do it, but it kind of defeats the whole point of a distribution for me. So I like the ones that have a name of being easy to use. I've never used plain Debian, for example, but I like Ubuntu. And before Debian people attack me - yeah, I know, I know, it's supposedly much simpler and easier to install these days. But it certainly didn't use to be, so I never had any reason to go for it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request
Here you go: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_I18n__L10n_Community_SketchPad/trans_status/ On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 19:40, sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: please give me some links to decent to thorough/exhaustive open solaris documentation or normal to advanced user guide that covers everything we need to know to use open solaris(I just used windows without any guide. All things are installed using GUI, not CUI, with good enough information,options and prudent requests from user.). I don't know that soalris reinstallation does not require any format of partition where an operating system is installed. Usually, upgrade does not require format of partition. What will happen if upgrade or reinstallation is giving problems and home directory is in the partition where the operating system is installed? I think then we may have to take backup of settings in our home directory. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request
sridhar wrote: please give me some links to decent to thorough/exhaustive open solaris documentation or normal to advanced user guide that covers everything we need to know to use open solaris(I just used windows without any guide. All things are installed using GUI, not CUI, with good enough information,options and prudent requests from user.). http://docs.sun.com/source/820-7679/ (reached by going to http://docs.sun.com/ choosing Operating Systems, then OpenSolaris) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request
You used Windows without any guide? So you know without any reading how to do proper setup of Internet computer based on Windows in mmc, you know how to work with registry without some guide, you know how to use support tools in cooperation with your initial setup and so on? Then sorry for my noise. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request
package manager should provide a way to pack the settings/configuration of the installed applications that are stored in the os partition(call it first partition). After installing a newer version in the first partition, package manager should restore the settings of all user applications in the os/first partition. This removes the need for installing all user applications every time os is installed. It is better if you make the upgrade/new version installation does not affect existing installed user applicaions or their settings irrespective whether they are installed in the os installation partition or different partition. I think it is a dream functionality. I am just asking. I don't know about technically feasibility? I setup my system with 3 partitions for windows. one is windows installation partition. second partition for installing my non-operating-system applications. I don't like those user applications which did not ask me about the installation directory. I use third partition for storing my data created using these applications. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - new feature request
And again. You don't understand Unix world. Read something about it first. Application settings are stored in your home directory so you can't loose them after upgrade of OS or installation of new version of app. Some apps may have additional directories with specific settings but it's mentioned in their documentation or in man page. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
