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pkgsrc, Solaris, and 5000 binary packages


October 19, 2009 posted by Alistair Crooks

Jonathan Perkin has posted an interesting blog entry entitled "apt-get" and 5,000 packages for Solaris10/x86 about using pkgsrc and the binary package manager pkgin on Solaris 10/x86. In pkgsrc, we can get conditioned to the fact that package management, in a coherent, well-controlled way; it's nice to see this gaining further traction in Solaris circles too.

Oh, and on a historical note - Solaris was the first non-NetBSD platform for pkgsrc. I wonder if anyone remembers when it was committed (without resorting to cvs logs)?

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Great article. pkgsrc on Solaris with zfs just makes it. Thanks Alistair.

Posted by dotemacs on October 19, 2009 at 03:59 PM UTC #

> Oh, and on a historical note - Solaris was the first non-NetBSD platform for pkgsrc. I wonder if anyone remembers when it was committed (without resorting to cvs logs)? Not sure -- but I remember experimenting with what was then called `Zoularis' in late 1998 or early 1999. :-)

Posted by Jim Wise on October 30, 2009 at 07:11 PM UTC #

Why not adapt apt-get to NetBSD? The quality of NetBSD code should remain the same while the adapted apt-get would allow for better package management and also come to benefit from the coding quality of NetBSD. Nexenta has a deeper integration of apt-get around the OpenSolaris kernel and all that it offers.

Posted by Badiane on December 02, 2009 at 05:41 PM UTC #

For those interested, there is a good description of the packaging system. I'm sure some ideas could be adapted to the NetBSD philosophy. http://www.amazon.com/Debian-System-Concepts-Techniques/dp/1593270690/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259775966&sr=8-1

Posted by badiane on December 02, 2009 at 05:47 PM UTC #

I moved my blog so the original URL is no longer correct, it's now here: http://www.perkin.org.uk/blog/2010/04/apt-get-and-5000-packages-for-solaris10x86/

Posted by Jonathan Perkin on November 09, 2010 at 10:10 PM UTC #

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