Google switching to Solaris?!

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 09:22 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 09:25 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >>> On Friday 22 September 2006 02:53, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>>> Or you could just install your favorite linux distro and
> >>>> effectively get the same functionality with 90% less pain & suffering.
> >>> Agreed!  Solaris is really weak on packaging.  Think Red Hat packaging 8 years
> >>> ago...  OpenSolaris could really benefit from their maintainers strapping
> >>> something like APT on to it.
> >>
> >> Actually, think Solaris  :)
> >> The Solaris packaging format is actually quite similar to Slackware in a
> >> lot of ways.  Make what you like of that.
> >
> > Is it the pkgadd system?
> 
> yup

Back when our product was UnixWare-based, we used pkgadd. Sun started
using it when they licensed the SVR4 source, which is where pkgadd came
from (Bell Labs). We have pretty much removed all pkgadd support from
our installation system. In fact, it never really offered any value to
our product. Running scripts at various points in the install is
something we now do via a Tcl/tk installer. Our current goal is a single
cross-platform installer. Something like InstallJammer. pkgadd is dead
technology.

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Roger Oberholtzer