[OpenIndiana-discuss] 1rst mirror in Europe: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

[Jasse Jansson]

On Sep 28, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
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> 3rd topic: IPS is a pain to maintain!!!
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> Many of you know IPS only from a user's point of view.
> (and that's slow enough ...)
> But did you ever spend weeks or months on bootstrapping a Repo?
> Pkgdepend runs for days and burns the cpu.
> But even that only if you have reached a remote point, where it runs
> at all without quitting after the first manifest, due to unresolved
> dependencies.
> Building such a repo is a _huge_ effort.
> But for what?
> Who would still be happy with (an extended_ SVR4 pkgadd, that can also
> be installed over the network with automatic deps resolution, as
> Blastwave has proven already starting 10 years ago)?

I'll be more than happy with whatever you choose.
Use the one that is easiest to maintain.

(My Blade 100 will be running martux in the near future ;-)

> Not only has Moinak Ghosh described SVR4 based alternatives on his
> blog 3 years ago, but as far as I know Joerg Schilling has also really
> developed a solution for SchilliX, just this year.