"Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW: illumos does not support SVr4 packaging, SchilliX-ON does. > > That is a false statement. > > We have support for SVR4 packaging in the illumos gate. The *distros* have > not elected to deliver SVR4 packages, and furthermore, we don't have tools > *in-tree* to generate SVR4 packages from the IPS manifests, but I submit > writing such a tool would be a nearly trivial matter. (In fact, I've written > a tool that parses IPS manifests to build a distribution for my company, > although it lacks any packaging metadata, as our "distro" is just an ISO. > But I could have just as easily emitted pkginfo and prototype files to > generate SVR4 package binaries.) We *do* have most (all?) of the SVR4 tool > set in-tree though.
So you just verified that your statement is false as you confirmed that Illumos does not create SVr4 packages. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
