Re: A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-07 Thread Matthew Dawkins
Sriram, I was unaware of the illumos project, but after googling it and reading a little bit, the community maintained part is exactly the idea behind UL. Regards, Matt On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Thanks, Matthew. I've just begun to take a look at these links, and

Re: A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Thanks, Matthew. I've just begun to take a look at these links, and find Unity Linux an interesting concept. (I was day dreaming a bit about a unitylinux effort for illumos, in fact!). -- Sriram On 9/7/10, Matthew Dawkins wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> On

Re: A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-07 Thread Matthew Dawkins
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sep 6, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > > >> Hello: > >> > >> I'm one of the team members of the Belenix Distro (www.belenix.org). > >> We are presently using th

Re: A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> I'm one of the team members of the Belenix Distro (www.belenix.org). >> We are presently using the SVR4 package format, and have wanted to >> move to a more modern day pac

Re: A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Sep 6, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Hello: > > I'm one of the team members of the Belenix Distro (www.belenix.org). > We are presently using the SVR4 package format, and have wanted to > move to a more modern day package format. > > We are very likely to use rpm5 as our packag

A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hello: I'm one of the team members of the Belenix Distro (www.belenix.org). We are presently using the SVR4 package format, and have wanted to move to a more modern day package format. We are very likely to use rpm5 as our package system :) We intend to bundle both yum and smart, and will leave i