[rescue] Open source packages for Solaris

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Wed Feb 29 01:01:06 CST 2012


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:41:35AM +0000, Vintage Coder wrote:
> For me the bottom line is if the OS has a native pkg system
> (Open/Net/Free/Dfly) I use that. If not (Slackware, Solaris) I happily
> roll my own.  

Err, doesn't Solaris 10 (and prior) pkg* system constitute a package
management system?

>From time to time, I think that instead of just installing packages from
source, I'd be better off to build them into packages then install the
package. 


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