‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, March 1, 2021 9:49 PM, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday, March 1, 2021 9:33 PM, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss > [email protected] wrote: > > > We have the tech there. Well adapted for our needs. APT+DPKG based Illumos > > distro is not unpopular. Some distros even use RPM. > > Most historic APT+DPKG based distros already dead, only DilOS is left now. > > So we could have a look at DilOS, the way they patched and utilizing > > APT+DPKG and we can even co-operate with them, if both side wanted. > > We already see too many problems of the IPS pkg. Could we switch to another > > path? > > I know compatibility haunted us. But recently we broke it already. It's no > > longer the holy grail we have to keep at all cost anymore. > > Could we patch our oi-userland to generate DEB packages alongside of IPS > > packages? > > The DilOS people has figured out how to build illumos-gate into DEB > > packages already. > > This will not as hard as doing from scratch as we have many references. > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > Sorry. I posted this without research much. After some researches, I think > this will never happen. > > OpenIndiana is a fake Solaris. > > oi-userland is nothing but solaris-userland, modified to build on the > different Illumos kernel OI uses. > > OI lives on Solaris. So what Solaris does, OI will follow. > > OI can't live without Solaris. And to keep Solaris likeness, the IPS > packaging system must be used. Anything else will break the relationship. > > Sounds harsh. But I have no bad intention. > > I currently using a fake Delphi, too. The Lazarus IDE is a fake Delphi. > Everything Delphi does, Lazarus and the Free Pascal Compiler who powers up > Lazarus will have to follow. > > They can't live without Delphi. Because no mirror images could live without > the object before the mirror. This is a simple fact. > > I'm back to reality now. > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss I wonder how stupid am I. Given the compiler triplet shared between OI/Illumos with Solaris, one must know it already: x86_64-pc-sun2.11. Sorry. I will stop annoying you. Best regards. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
