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November 5, 2003
Fresh Look at Solaris Package Management
I was recently pointed to the blastwave.org site as an alternative to sunfreeware.org. I assumed it would be just another place to get precompiled and build Solaris packages, not quite.
Blastwave brings a new take on managing Solaris packages. All packages are CSW (Community SoftWare) packages, and are managed with a Debian-like set of tools. A core set of contributors manage the package base and end-users subscribe to these packages. When installing the package is pulled from a mirror and installed, rather than having to maintain local copies of the packages. Using pkg-get to grab packages takes care of installing dependancies.
Blastwave provides details on each package with helpful information about required packages.
Wondering what risks might be associated with using a system like this.
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I guess the only real risk at the moment is that the site may go out of business because it is funded by no one. Not Sun.
On the other hand we have been doing this for almost two years and are up to 500 software packages with bug reporting.
I think we can be trusted! :)
Posted by: Dennis Clarke at May 31, 2004 9:44 AM