[oi-dev] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch - A package list

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, January 21, 2011 07:25 AM, Deano wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> Seems a good list, the only area I think we might want to look at, is if
> we should try to remove duplicates of an application area. As we are
> very short of resources and time for this first Stable Branch I think it
> might be better to just go for one of each application area?
>
> I know that will not please everything, but should be easier to maintain
> whilst getting the system in place?
>
> Not a mail person, so I’ll skip that heated debate. I’d say mysql for
> sure, but do we need another database? Same with web servers, I’d say
> Apache for sure maybe drop lighttp?

How can postgresql NOT be included? On the mail side, these three are 
pretty much standard on every Linux distro out there and postfix is most 
probably top of the list in terms of usage. I very much doubt that there 
are any new mail admins learning to customize their sendmail 
installation with the sendmail.mc file let alone learn to read and write 
sendmail rulesets.


>
> I know this kind of of culling will cause lots of “But X is better” (I’m
> the same for web servers, I never use Apache, just Nginx) but may make
> it easier until we get more people on it? Perhaps simple based on
> popularity rather than personal choice (to make it easier to justify?).

postgresql definitely has to be on the list and that is not because of 
my personal choice.


>
> Of course we might have enough to do more packages and I’m being
> pessimistic about how many we can ‘afford’ to have in the first Stable
> build.
>
> Just my 2 pence.
>
> Deano
>
> *From:* Colin Ellis [mailto:panamayacht at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 20 January 2011 21:10
> *To:* oi-dev at openindiana.org
> *Subject:* [oi-dev] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch - A package list
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've compiled a package list incorporating the ones from Alasdairrr's
> email with some of the ones I feel are must-haves in order to serve
> anything internet-related. I've taken the time to list the latest stable
> source code release version along with latest package versions for
> Fedora 14, debian Lenny, OI 148, and where possible the latest in SFW
> upstream from Oracle.
>
> My feeling is that we can do better than oracle in some of these
> packages without too much work. It will make us more marketable if we
> were up to date at least with apache, mysql, php, bind9 and sendmail. If
> we don't want to release them as stable then i'd be happy to look after
> another consolidation of these updated packages.
>
> Ubuntu created a great following very quickly by being more up to date
> than debian (not difficult!). I believe that we can do the same and be
> better for some applications than solaris 11.
>
> Please comment and add your own must-have packages.
>
> /Colin
>
>
>
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