On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 11:44:21AM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > I was referring to the manifest comment. Yes, I know I can diddle things > the way you described. If we want to get people from the Linux and BSD > communities onboard, OpenSolaris should be more amenable to things like this > that almost any SysAdmin is going to do a some time or another. I've > literally lost track of the number of times I've wanted to do something, and > the 'usual method' doesn't work, and I have to fire up google and see how > OpenSolaris does it.
Software packages that require SMF should come with a manifest and method already. The IPS package scheme even has a way to import the manifest automatically. For the others, maybe we need an SMF builder? The difficult part is dependancies. Perhaps it would only need to offer a series of general choices for those. SMF has many advanced features too, but those could be omitted for these simple cases. > And before anyone asks why I am screwing with OS when > I don't seem to like it very much, well, I need ZFS. Linux doesn't have it > (really) yet. BSD does, but not quite as up to date... -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Group- -Computer and Network Services- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
