RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris

2005-08-04 Thread Magnus Forsberg
: Eric Boutilier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 3 augusti 2005 20:44 Till: Magnus Forsberg Kopia: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Ämne: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Magnus Forsberg wrote: [ ... ] I see

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris

2005-08-04 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/4/05, Magnus Forsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing with OpenPKG for a while. What I don't like about it: - RPMs are of no use if you want to customize the build (all rpms install in /openpkg/*) That's wrong. You have acess to the .src.rpm for customisations, and if you

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris

2005-08-04 Thread Robert W. Fuller
The reason I abandoned Debian and went to Gentoo was because I couldn't have all the applications I wanted installed at the same time due to conflicting library requirements. At least Gentoo has slots which handles these sorts of things. I think the best package management system does not exist

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris

2005-08-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Magnus Forsberg wrote: [ ... ] I see there is already a disussion about this in: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=953tstart=0 The most interesting part is to have a standard build system, not just a package system... I agree -- mostly because there