[OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

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thanks for all the answers

Thread name: "Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river" 
Mail number: 6 
Date: Tue, Oct 02, 2012 
In reply to: Thorsten Heit <thorsten.heit at vkb.de> 
>
> Hi,
> 
> > > I still don't know what IPS really is....
> > 
> > "Image Packaging System"
> > 
> > It's a software packaging scheme that was designed during the
> > OpenSolaris days as a replacement for the old SysV packaging system.
> > The big change is that it's based on a client/server model, where (at
> > least in the first implementation) the server was a required part of the
> > software upgrade mechanism.
> > 
> > The old SysV packaging system had a disk format that delivered files,
> > including scripts that ran at installation.  IPS does not, and instead
> > has a set of pre-determined actions that can be taken during upgrade or
> > install of a file.  The lack of scripting is an important improvement --
> > the old scripting mechanisms allowed software developers to deliver
> > arbitrary horrors inside scripts, but the new system doesn't allow that.
> > 
> > OpenSolaris (and OpenIndiana) still supports SysV packaging, but the
> > main software, at least in the main line of code, is delivered via IPS.
> 
> One big difference between IPS and the old SysV system:
> 
> A SysV package is one huge file whereas packages delivered via IPS are 
> split into lots of single files; simplified said: one file on your disk 
> from a certain package ^= one file in IPS, cryptographically signed in the 
> IPS manifest and stored in compressed form on the IPS server.
> 
> If you download a newer version of a SysV package, MySQL for example, you 
> normally have to suck the whole package, even when only a small part 
> inside the package was changed. IPS on the other hand will download only 
> the delta, i.e. those files that were changed.
> 
> Additionally the IPS server doesn't really care about the architecture of 
> your system; it can store files for different CPU architectures and 
> operating systems in one single repository. GlassFish for example is using 
> this technique (*).
> 
> 
> (*) https://blogs.oracle.com/alexismp/entry/java_ee_6_tutorial_and 
> 
> Just my 0.02$ ;-)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Thorsten
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