Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-03 Thread David Halko
Hi, Hi, I still don't know what IPS really is Image Packaging System It's a software packaging scheme that was designed during the OpenSolaris days as a replacement for the old SysV packaging system. The big change is that it's based on a client/server model, where (at least

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-03 Thread James Carlson
David Halko wrote: SVR4 had a stream option, to bundle packages. Packages were often delivered on floppies, tapes, disks, and eventually by HTTP. The stream option was really just cpio. SVR4 packages could be delivered in streams encapsulating 1 or more packages or as a bursted filesystem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/ 3/12 02:25 AM, David Halko wrote: SVR4 packages include the ability to perform integrity checks of the installed package against an accepted manifest. This offers security checking options to ensure that scripts binaries have proper permissions and have not been tampered with (i.e.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-02 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi, I still don't know what IPS really is Image Packaging System It's a software packaging scheme that was designed during the OpenSolaris days as a replacement for the old SysV packaging system. The big change is that it's based on a client/server model, where (at least in the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-02 Thread låzaro
thanks for all the answers Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river Mail number: 6 Date: Tue, Oct 02, 2012 In reply to: Thorsten Heit thorsten.h...@vkb.de Hi, I still don't know what IPS really is Image Packaging System It's a software packaging

[OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread lazaro
Hi all. I'm very newb in this matter of SunOS and the whole familily (illumous and his OI) but if all work like the documentation say... it is a perfect OS. Also my english is not the best thing. My questions: Could I make novice's questions here? An answer can be RTFM but really de FM is very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Don't be embarrassed to ask questions. However, there are some references that may be helpful and may answer your questions faster than posting to the mailing list. The Rosetta Stone for Unix - add Linux and/or Mac OS X in addition to Solaris, and you'll get some useful command references,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread låzaro
Hope these help. Feel free to ask questions - we're really friendly! :) is good to know that I'll verify use google before ask for avoid RTFM answers... and thanks for the answer Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river Mail number: 1 Date: Mon, Oct 01, 2012

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread låzaro
mirror of oracle (at last of the wiki)?? Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river Mail number: 1 Date: Mon, Oct 01, 2012 In reply to: Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com Don't be embarrassed to ask questions. However, there are some references that may

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread Roel_D
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
On 10/1/2012 5:56 PM, Roel_D wrote: Your questions are more like things you wanted to know about OpenIndiana, but were afraid to ask Good questions and good answers. I still don't know what IPS really is Image Packaging System It's a software packaging scheme that was designed