On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:43 AM Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2021-03-01 06:33, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss 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. > There are many possible "package managers" available. Some have already > been > recobbled > to support Solaris derivatives. But IMHO the DEB package managers are not > as > efficient > I'd say this is largely an academic argument. I have 3 machines that use apt + deb with no associated issues. Actually, # apt dist-upgrade on Debian Buster, Ubuntu 20.10, and Raspberry Pi OS Buster runs MUCH faster than # pkg update -v -r on OI Hipster with approximately the same underlying hardware (Intel Core 2nd Gen, 16 GB RAM) for the OI, Debian, and Ubuntu machines.
as many of the others, it's a real "cache thrasher". I don't think this is an issue if you have a decent (e.g. Samsung 860 Evo or better) SSD with good endurance specs. Many of the others are > more DB > centric. Which tends to make them much faster and less resource abusive. > > --Chris > > > > > > -- > ~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports > ~40yrs of UNIX > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
