On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Sunay Tripathi <tripathi.su...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > Let me introduce myself. My name is Sunay Tripathi who *had* been with > Sun/Solaris for a long long time and tinkered around with the OS. Its > great to see you guys taking the initiative. I was looking to see if > people were looking to take any major projects. Given the focus > around packaging, some work around IPS would be useful. Specially > related to file based URIs. The dependency on someone else's repo > has been the most complained about part of IPS from general community. > > For instance, you could have all the packages in file form in SVR4 > and write scipts to install identical system without needing the > network was something useful and I think we never completed that work > in IPS. I wrote some more on my thoughts on what it takes to make > a open source OS succeed in long term here > > http://sunaytripathi.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/solaris-as-an-open-source-alternative-to-linux/ > > Anyway, if there is some interest from people to work in this area, we > can start a discussion. > > Again, keep up the good work. > > Cheers, > Sunay >
Hi Sunay, Glad to have you on board! Most of us are familiar with your transformation of the networking space. (I remember meeting you at a dinner after last year's LISA). Shawn Walker at Oracle has been leading the on-disk package repository support, and the format of on-disk repositories has been finalised. You can install packages directly from a file:// URI without a temporary depot server, and indeed we use this functionality in the process of constructing the distribution, as several consolidations are imported directly from on-disk repositories. There is additionally a pax-based stream format for a single file, like SVR4's stream format, I don't know if the tools for manipulating this are done. The spec for both is here: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/doc/on-disk-format.txt -Albert _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
