On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Sunay Tripathi <tripathi.su...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://sunaytripathi.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/solaris-as-an-open-source-alternative-to-linux/
"The install is another story altogether, given that a large amount of code for automatic install has not even been opensourced" Which parts of IPS/AI aren't open? "Allow someone to make a non network clone of the repo (at least for the true opensource packages including the kernel)." You can presently create fully-fledged mirrors of the OI repository which you can then reuse as a local network repository or add directly to your publisher list as a file:// URI. The "onu" update script for Illumos makes use of file:// URIs already when updating to locally-built nightly packages, etc. You can also relatively easily roll an AI server without the use of any OI-specific components (once you have a functional AI ISO, which is also easy to create with the distribution constructor. Some rough-draft information about that is here: http://blog.sysmgr.org/2010/10/openindiana-automated-install-server.html -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
