On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My 2 cents: > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > that no work's been done yet. > > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. > > - A big point in favor of Solaris packaging is compatibiltiy with > commercial Solaris and Solaris Express. > > Of the other three others -- rpm, pkgsrc, and tww... Thoughts?
As far as I can tell from reading the documentation, TWW is a high level package management system that can't work on it's own, as it relies on the underlying operating system to have a native packaging system. Think of it as an abstract packging system layer above whatever the native one is. So, it doesn't really work for a native packaging system. That leaves OpenPKG RPM, and pkgsrc. Most of the *nix folk will probably lean more toward pkgsrc. But, as someone that's implemented an entire software deployment system based on OpenPKG, I'm heavily biased towards it. Especially since there is a rich set of portable packages already available and Solaris is an officially supported platform for the OpenPKG project. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
