[OpenIndiana-discuss] Do you ever think about adopting APT+DPKG?

[cretin1997]

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On Monday, March 1, 2021 9:49 PM, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

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> On Monday, March 1, 2021 9:33 PM, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org wrote:
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> > We have the tech there. Well adapted for our needs. APT+DPKG based Illumos distro is not unpopular. Some distros even use RPM.
> > Most historic APT+DPKG based distros already dead, only DilOS is left now. So we could have a look at DilOS, the way they patched and utilizing APT+DPKG and we can even co-operate with them, if both side wanted.
> > We already see too many problems of the IPS pkg. Could we switch to another path?
> > I know compatibility haunted us. But recently we broke it already. It's no longer the holy grail we have to keep at all cost anymore.
> > Could we patch our oi-userland to generate DEB packages alongside of IPS packages?
> > The DilOS people has figured out how to build illumos-gate into DEB packages already.
> > This will not as hard as doing from scratch as we have many references.
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> Sorry. I posted this without research much. After some researches, I think this will never happen.
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> OpenIndiana is a fake Solaris.
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> oi-userland is nothing but solaris-userland, modified to build on the different Illumos kernel OI uses.
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> OI lives on Solaris. So what Solaris does, OI will follow.
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> OI can't live without Solaris. And to keep Solaris likeness, the IPS packaging system must be used. Anything else will break the relationship.
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> Sounds harsh. But I have no bad intention.
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> I currently using a fake Delphi, too. The Lazarus IDE is a fake Delphi. Everything Delphi does, Lazarus and the Free Pascal Compiler who powers up Lazarus will have to follow.
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> They can't live without Delphi. Because no mirror images could live without the object before the mirror. This is a simple fact.
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> I'm back to reality now.
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I wonder how stupid am I. Given the compiler triplet shared between OI/Illumos with Solaris, one must know it already: x86_64-pc-sun2.11.

Sorry. I will stop annoying you.

Best regards.