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

Daniel Kjar dkjar at elmira.edu
Fri Sep 28 15:09:11 UTC 2012


same here.  Whichever form is best for you.  I could care less.


On 09/28/12 10:44 AM, Jasse Jansson wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
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>> 3rd topic: IPS is a pain to maintain!!!
>> ##################################################
>> 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.
>
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