On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko <[email protected]> wrote:
> U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines. Thank > you for your efforts! > > Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect any > software will ever be commercial software made available for IPS under SPARC > OI since it is so buggy & a moving target. > > There is plenty of SVR4 Solaris 10 SPARC commercial software currently > available. SVR4 packaging is also extensible without code changes. We also > don't need to do pre/post install/remove scripts, if we choose not to in SVR4 > packaging. > > Thanks, > David Halko > http://svr4.blogspot.com/ > http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Hi David! many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) I'm glad to get such feedback. However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early during, it would be a very long story to tell) ... As for IPS I could not agree more with you. The question is and remains, if we necessarily ___need__ IPS for anything. >From a user-only's point of view it is already bad enough. >From a distribution-builder's view I would not even wish my worst enemy to experience it (ghhrr!!!). Here only one current example: A user's T2000 runs pkg for 8 hours, then crashes. To do a thing that would not even be necessary in the first place in such a scenario, with SVR4-pkgadd! And this is how ugly it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine, how one feels as a distribution-constructor!! A year is nothing while fighting with IPS ... See the thread "pkg-discuss] gcc install?" under: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2012-October/thread.html p.s. I added your SVR4 link to my footer ... tnx && rgds, %martin http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD http://www.youtube.com/user/MartUXopensolaris http://www.facebook.com/pages/MartUX_SPARC-OpenIndiana/357912020962940 https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig http://www.martux.org (new page not yet online, but pretty soon) Forwarding David Halko's: http://svr4.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
