Comments on: local pkg server not starting http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/865 Bad running advice, boring family stuff, and technology few find interesting Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:48:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathan Powell http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/865/comment-page-1#comment-86575 Nathan Powell Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:20:45 +0000 http://nathanpowell.org/blog/?p=865#comment-86575 I know you are kidding, but one thing that I do agree with is that from a Linux Admin perspective the Solaris patching/packaging system always seemed overly complicated and dodgey. There are arguments to explain that, but perception is reality for folks, and I think it gave Solaris packaging a bad name. After I ran through that tutorial I rolled up rlwrap as well to see if what I did above got my head around it all, and my honest opinion is that IPS is pretty well done. After some further investigation, the submission process to get a package into /contrib requires a spec file (that is largely (totally?) rpm compliant) that you don't actually build with those directions, so that was slightly confusing at first. After a day to think about it though I think it makes sense. I know you are kidding, but one thing that I do agree with is that from a Linux Admin perspective the Solaris patching/packaging system always seemed overly complicated and dodgey.

There are arguments to explain that, but perception is reality for folks, and I think it gave Solaris packaging a bad name.

After I ran through that tutorial I rolled up rlwrap as well to see if what I did above got my head around it all, and my honest opinion is that IPS is pretty well done.

After some further investigation, the submission process to get a package into /contrib requires a spec file (that is largely (totally?) rpm compliant) that you don’t actually build with those directions, so that was slightly confusing at first. After a day to think about it though I think it makes sense.

]]> By: Bob Igo http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/865/comment-page-1#comment-86564 Bob Igo Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:51:20 +0000 http://nathanpowell.org/blog/?p=865#comment-86564 Wow, OpenSolaris works so well now! In the old days of Solaris, making a package required you to hand-edit a binary file by poking the spinning platter with a magnetized needle. This is so much better! Wow, OpenSolaris works so well now! In the old days of Solaris, making a package required you to hand-edit a binary file by poking the spinning platter with a magnetized needle. This is so much better!

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