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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?
From:       Joerg.Schilling () fokus ! fraunhofer ! de (Joerg Schilling)
Date:       2010-09-16 12:00:07
Message-ID: 4c9206c7.7vqcr9LYGm++0sV/%Joerg.Schilling () fokus ! fraunhofer ! de
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"Richard L. Hamilton" <rlhamil@smart.net> wrote:

> Well...there are probably people that prefer for example
> * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default

This is why few Solaris users did accept Indiana.


> * SVR4 packages vs IPS vs whatever packaging scheme Nexenta uses
> (there too there's a problem, inasmuch as other tools like beadm and zonecfg
> are also involved, although I gather it ought to be possible to come up with
> different versions of them for each packaging scheme that some distro or
> another uses)

SVR4 packages support sparse zones, IPS does not.

> If one wants to keep maximum compatibility with OpenSolaris/Solaris 11 (Express),
> then I suppose one had better grit one's teeth and accept IPS.  But the rest
> might well be handled mostly with additional packages for alternative
> command set(s) or GUIs.

SVR4 packages are widely in use (e.g. from ISVs) and accepted by customers.

IPS is halfway ready and it's future OSS strategy is unknown.

> But don't forget that the most commercial (i.e. developers that do it as
> their day job) distro outside of Oracle is probably Nexenta, and they
> do Debian-based packaging and command set.

Commercial developers still use SVR4 packages

Jörg

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