Hi, be warned that I just put the files that have been removed with the GUI deprecation, I did not have the time for more :)
Nikola: would you have the time to work on a wiki page to formalize a group effort around package manager ? Similar thing could be done to identify what is missing to make /dev and /hipster converge. Best regards Aurelien On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Nikola M. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/13/14 05:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Can any of you tell me how one navigates the pkgs. In my install >> there seems to be no pkg manager. >> >> I'm familiar with the pkg cmdline but digging out specific stuff >> without the name is a bit primitive. And time consuming. >> > > Hi Harry, > GUI packagemanager and update manager were removed from upstream Oracle > codebase and need maintaining to be included back. > Hipster pulled upstream changes and lost GUI tools this year, without > actions on fixing issue or getting to maintain it. (and it was broken in > Hipster from Hipster's day1, anyway) > Someone (aurelien larcher) posted it on Github: > > https://github.com/alarcher/packagemanager > > It is just a repository with EOLed files but at least it is somewhere. >> > > So it could be first thing to do , Getting back Packagemanager and update > manager back to working state. > But maybe even better then that, it would be better > to make connection between tested /dev releases and Hipster - in a way you > exactly needed, > and that is updating from /dev with a chance of using new /dev in the > future in line with existing ones. > > Getting back update manager and Package manager is required for new /dev > anyway. > See if you can include yourself on oi-dev mailing list. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LARCHER Aurélien | KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication Work: +46 (0) 8 790 71 42 | Lindstedtsvägen 5, Plan 4, 100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
