[osol-discuss] Are there plans to make more official packages available for 2008.05?

2008-05-11 Thread Helge G.
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

Re: [osol-discuss] Are there plans to make more official packages available for 2008.05?

2008-05-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Helge G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Are there plans to make more official packages available for 2008.05?

2008-05-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Helge G. wrote: 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