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<br><div><div>On May 29, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>DavidHalko <<a href="mailto:davidhalko@gmail.com">davidhalko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Sparse zones were probably one of the most innovative features of Solaris 10, providing significant value, and one of out biggest issues with moving off of Solaris 10. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If OpenIndiana supported SPARC with Sparse Zones, managed service providers would have a serious time trying to justify not moving to OpenIndiana.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There are at least 2 distro's based on SVR4 packaging right now with at least 2 SVR4 package provider. The issue with all Illumos-based distro's is no distro is providing security patches and enough backwards compatibility with Solaris 10.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Which distros do you refer to?<br><br>BTW: illumos does not support SVr4 packaging, SchilliX-ON does.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>That is a false statement.</div><div><br></div><div>We have support for SVR4 packaging in the illumos gate. The *distros* have not elected to deliver SVR4 packages, and furthermore, we don't have tools *in-tree* to generate SVR4 packages from the IPS manifests, but I submit writing such a tool would be a nearly trivial matter. (In fact, I've written a tool that parses IPS manifests to build a distribution for my company, although it lacks any packaging metadata, as our "distro" is just an ISO. But I could have just as easily emitted pkginfo and prototype files to generate SVR4 package binaries.) We *do* have most (all?) of the SVR4 tool set in-tree though.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Garrett</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Jörg<br><br>-- <br> EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin<br> <a href="mailto:js@cs.tu-berlin.de">js@cs.tu-berlin.de</a> (uni) <br> <a href="mailto:joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de">joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de</a> (work) Blog: <a href="http://schily.blogspot.com/">http://schily.blogspot.com/</a><br> URL: <a href="http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/">http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/</a> <a href="ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily">ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily</a><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------<br>illumos-developer<br>Archives: <a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now">https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now</a><br>RSS Feed: <a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21239177-c925e33f">https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21239177-c925e33f</a><br>Modify Your Subscription: <a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21239177&id_secret=21239177-4dba8197">https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21239177&id_secret=21239177-4dba8197</a><br>Powered by Listbox: <a href="http://www.listbox.com">http://www.listbox.com</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>