[OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE or OpenCSW? Or both?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:

> as the amount of packages for OpenCSW by far exceeds SFE / 
> SFE-encumbered, here's a (hopefully not stupid) question: are there 
> any drawbacks involved in switching over to OpenCSW? Or have both in 
> parallel? My intent is to run OpenIndiana in the tradition of 
> OpenSolaris as an open source Solaris and as close to it as possible 
> - and not as a kind of Linux with Solaris kernel. So, what's your 
> way?

While I have not tried it, there are also NetBSD's pkgsrc packages 
for Illumos:

   http://www.illumos.org/projects/worsoe

   http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/9000-packages-for-smartos-and-illumos.html

Since this work is done for SmartOS, I am not sure what issues there 
might be with running the binaries under OpenIndiana (I recall that 
all of the packages were being rebuilt again to improve runtime 
portability).

Some Illumos-based distributions are using Debian's apt-get packaging 
system.

Bob
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