Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-08-04 Thread Alan Hargreaves - Product Technical Support (APAC)
Dave Miner wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: ... I thought we are still in hope that the SVr4 pkg system will become OpenSource soon. Let me provide an update. We who are responsible for the install and packaging code are just now beginning the diligence research required so that we can relea

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Miner
Joerg Schilling wrote: ... I thought we are still in hope that the SVr4 pkg system will become OpenSource soon. Let me provide an update. We who are responsible for the install and packaging code are just now beginning the diligence research required so that we can release it. The basic pl

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-08-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Gyger) wrote: > For completeness, there is also IEEE Std 1387.2-1995/ISO/IEC 15068-2:1999. > It's used by HP OpenView (e.g. SD-Solaris) and by HP-UX 10 and later. > There exist 2000+ packages in this format for HP-UX alone. See e.g. > > http://hpux.connect.org.uk > http:/

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-08-02 Thread Markus Gyger
Eric Boutilier writes: > What's the best package architecture (database) standard for > OpenSolaris? The canonicial choices, listed alphabetically, are: > > * deb > * pkgsrc (implemented by pkgsrc system) > * portage > * rpm (implemented by the openpkg system) > * solaris packaging (impl

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-07-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Peter C. Tribble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not so. Solaris Express, and the Community release, are binary distributions > based on OpenSolaris. Solaris 10 fails to qualify only as an accident in > timing. > And Sun provide prebuilt binary archives you can bfu. The next Solaris Express may b

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-07-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Scott Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:33:46PM +0800, James Lick wrote: > > The only Sun > > provided distribution of OpenSolaris comes only as source code (and a > > bunch of binaries that are still closed source). You need to Solaris > > Not so. There is a bina

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Albert White
Hi, Others have already clarified most of this. Any package management solution that an opensolaris distribution uses will be up to that distro. I've written a little on keeping a binary distribution up to date on http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/albertw?entry=updaing_software_in_the_open a

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Peter C. Tribble wrote: James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said This is a bit confusing, but there is no ISO distribution of OpenSolaris. Sure there is. Solaris Express and the Community Release. Btw, b17 seem to be available for downloads. Just downloaded it and I am now

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Peter C. Tribble
James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said >>> >>>This is a bit confusing, but there is no ISO distribution of >>>OpenSolaris. Sure there is. Solaris Express and the Community Release. >>>You are probably thinking of the Solaris Express Community >>>Release which comes as four ISOs. That's not OpenSo

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:33:46PM +0800, James Lick wrote: > The only Sun > provided distribution of OpenSolaris comes only as source code (and a > bunch of binaries that are still closed source). You need to Solaris Not so. There is a binary "distribution" in the form of BFU archives. These

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread James Lick
Louwtjie Burger wrote: First question is specificly to Sun's opensolaris distribution... Will it continue to be in the format of downloadable iso's with the standard release cycle or variation thereof? This is a bit confusing, but there is no ISO distribution of OpenSolaris. You are pro

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Louwtjie Burger
First question is specificly to Sun's opensolaris distribution... Will it continue to be in the format of downloadable iso's with the standard release cycle or variation thereof? If yes, does this mean that a regular download of 4 ISO's are on the cards? If no, are there any internal work being