Re: [OT] Re: Solaris/Debian
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:44:19AM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Saku Ytti wrote:
>
> > Also if someone is working for a company doing commercial distribution like
> > solaris I'd truly woul like to know what is the reason they don't apply some
> > humane way to install/remove administrade programs. Hell, for a engineer paid
> > $150k/year it wouldn't be too much to ask to code sun-get, when he could
> > 'steal' the the code from GPLd code and release Solaris 10 with a
> > ETOOBIGPRICETAG ;).
>
> Although it's not the same as having Solaris .debs, pkg-get is quite nice.
> See http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/. At my employer, we're in the
> process of writing a bff-get for AIX. Goodbye Tivoli Monitoring and
> Software Distribution, hello NetSaint and ???-get. The odd thing is, no
> matter how much money (and time and cycles) we save, we get paid the
> same... ;)
>
> HTH,
> tony
Sorry this doest 'H', pkg-get uses sunfreeware which suprises me over and over
again with it's low quality packaking. When I need something for solaris, I do
apt-get source <foobar> on debian, scp the source and compile it. This usually
works, which in the first place made me wonder, what would be the problem of
compiling it the debian way via apt-get -b source <packet>?
--
ytti
Reply to: