On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Shawn Walker <swal...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >> Hi, I believe he means, that the dependency resolution algorithm used >> by csw (in the past with pkg-get, and also now) is suboptimal (which >> is not a shame, as most others are, too). >> For example, speaking in directed graph language (#0), Blastwave >> doesn't ensure that cycles are avoided. > > No, the dependency resolution algorithm has nothing to do with it. > > blastwave's packages are built with the assumption that libaries live > relative to the rest of the programs (such as under /opt/csw), are compiled > with different flags, and generally assume dependencies must be provided by > other blastwave packages. > > Many of the blastwave programs simply don't work if you attempt to use the > libraries on the system instead. > > -- > Shawn Walker
That's an additional aspect. Maybe you do not remember that I have been a Blastwave member/contributor/packager myself from 2004 to 2006, so I am aware of the nitty gritty. The rest is still 100% true. Did you read link #1 which I provided earlier in this thread? If not, then here it is again: (#1) http://www.mancoosi.org/edos/manager.html Even based on SVR4 pkgadd (as obviously required) it would be possible to maintain update plans before downloading much more than a few kbytes. Moinak Ghosh has engineered and show-cased a possible solution: http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/belenix_packaging/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/belenix-packaging-and-repository-directions-part-2/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/the-belenix-package-manager/ Last time all his engineering had been planted into Indiana without asking him much for permission and without giving him any credit for it. This time his advice is not even used at all. I wonder, which one of those 2 is actually WORSE and MORE DAMAGING for the OpenSolaris project. Maybe others could comment? %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
