Re: Sun hardware
At 09:26 AM 3/8/02 +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
>John Griffiths wrote:
>> I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical
>> about doing something very similar to apt.
>
>Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not.
>
>BTW, what makes it impossible the way apt does on Debian systems would
>work on Suns? I think it's just about the differences in directories of
>files. Well, the main problem would be on how "apt-get update" would
>work for products from different companies.
>
>I believe it would be doable. Due to the openness of Sun, it wouldn't be
>difficult to set up "registered servers" where you can safely and
>correctly download the packages from; especially the package lists (the
>actual .deb's could be anywhere, right?)
>
>Oki
I can't think of any issues that couldn't be resolved (multiple apt sources
aren't a problem, authentication and license checking should be achievable)
I think it's just a lot of work in terms of repackaging everything properly
to
get from where they are, to where we are.
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