[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

[Nathan Evans]

you should include slackware.

On 23 October 2010 05:13, <ober at dns.mauthesis.com> wrote:

> Hi
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
>
>  Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:06:15 +0100
>> From: Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS,
>>    Debian, Ubuntu etc
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've got a fun task for someone who is looking to contribute to the
>> project.
>>
>> It would be really useful to compare packages and versions between:
>>
>> OpenIndiana oi_147
>> CentOS/RHEL 5.5 and 6
>> Debian 5
>> Ubuntu 10
>> FreeBSD
>>
>> Doing this in a spreadsheet might be the easiest method. The "primary key"
>> would be the software/package, so something like:
>>
>>
>> Package | OI_147 | Deb 5 | RHEL 5.5 | RHEL 6 | Ubuntu 10
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> PHP     | 5.2.12 | 5.2.8 | 5.1.6    | 5.3.?  | 5.3.2
>> Exim    | n/a    | 4.72  | 4.63     | n/a    | 4.71
>> ...
>>
>>
>> But including FreeBSD if possible.
>>
>> Obviously this is a lot of work to do manually, so I'd recommend somehow
>> automating the process of getting versions of packages/software by
>> inspecting package repositories. Then cleaning the data up manually if
>> needed.
>>
>> The main thing as a project we'd like to get a handle on is what software
>> is common across the major distributions that is missing from OI, with a
>> view to including this.
>>
>> It would also be useful to know what packages are popular that are
>> missing, so getting info from http://popcon.debian.org/ might be useful.
>>
>> Personally I'd love for OI to include as much quality well packaged
>> software as possible, so people converting from Linux are pleasantly
>> surprised. In my day job, we sell managed hosting, and we try to get
>> everyone to go on Solaris 10. People coming from Linux are mortified at how
>> little software is available. The situation is much better on
>> OpenSolaris/OI, but it's still behind Linux, and I want to address that.
>>
>> If people are going to make the switch from their comfort zone on Linux,
>> we need to give them something equal or better. Packaging so far seems to be
>> the most common complaint, so we should do all we can to address that!
>>
>> Some of my other ideas include providing multiple versions of packages, so
>> people can choose what they deploy. For example providing dual PHP 5.2 and
>> PHP 5.3, ruby 1.8 and ruby 1.9, Tomcat 5.5 and 6.0 AND 7.0, etc. The idea
>> being that providing multiple versions shouldn't be too hard really, but
>> would be immensely useful to a lot of people and would make OI a compelling
>> install.
>>
>> I'd like us to get KDE integrated into our main repo as a first class
>> citizen at some point in the future if the KDE4Solaris people were happy to
>> help with this.
>>
>> I'd also like us to set up a patent encumbered repo which is hosted in
>> Europe (where there are thankfully no software patents), which contains VLC,
>> MPlayer, FFMpeg, etc - lots of stuff that people want and would be immensely
>> useful.
>>
>> Anyway, I've gone slightly off topic :) People interested in doing the
>> package report, please get in touch!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alasdair
>>
>>
>>
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>>  pkgsrc works today on OI and 1400 packages compile fine.
> Might reduce a lot of work too given it's portability.
>
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