Oki DZ wrote:
John Griffiths wrote:
I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing
lyrical about doing something very similar to apt.
Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I
hope not.
BTW, what makes it impossible the way apt does on Debian systems would
work on Suns? I think it's just about the differences in directories
of files. Well, the main problem would be on how "apt-get update"
would work for products from different companies.
I believe it would be doable. Due to the openness of Sun, it wouldn't
be difficult to set up "registered servers" where you can safely and
correctly download the packages from; especially the package lists
(the actual .deb's could be anywhere, right?)
Oki
http://www.sunfreeware.com is the "registered server".
The "apt-get" clone is pkg-get
(http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html). It's not nearly as good
as apt-get, but it's recognizable as a reasonable facsimile.
Kent
