> 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. > This is not a bug ;) It is a feature that let me pick TWW over openpkg. > 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. OpenPKG indeed is a good CPAM solution if there is no need to maintain compatibiltiy with existing legacy packages and local PMS. tj > -- > Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
