More choice is relevant when you have a limited application base, to
make the most of what's out there would mean using subversion and
OpenPKG for best effect. One would expect to get more packages on a
running system provided that you can install it from the disc since
both have their own
As I have said before the effort spent supporting two packaging systems
would be better spent on porting packages into the existing system (IPS), if
someone wants to go and work on other package systems (and they have) they
are ,more than welcome to.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Spencer Tom
That's good to know, has anyone delved into importing packages from
subversion for IPS/pkgtools?
2009/8/20 Che Kristo c...@opensolaris.org
As I have said before the effort spent supporting two packaging systems
would be better spent on porting packages into the existing system (IPS), if
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.
If you look back through the mailing list you can see that I have advocated
for OpenPKG in the past, but, this was before IPS came along. OpenPKG is
available for Solaris 10 and no doubt will be made available for
Solaris.next once it has been on the market for a while. To bring OpenPKG
into
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
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
Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume 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
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,
