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* On 2006.05.25, in <Pine.LNX.4.58.0605251325460.7685@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>, * "Luke Kanies" <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Solaris stupidly has no retrieval tech builtin, and their packaging software > ... > Because Sun's package system is stupid, the current package has to be > removed, rather than just being replaced. You get a bunch of warnings that Sun's packaging system is Not Nice, and I don't oppose any hate on it for what it is. But this here is a hate on what it isn't. Your problem isn't because Sun's system is stupid; it works fine for Sun, who don't put upgrade packages on teh Intarwebs for you to download. What's stupid is that SFW and Blastwave *use* Sun's packaging system, which isn't really a solution to their set of problems. ... Back when I cared about this kind of thing, and didn't have me own software distribution farm that's good enough (despite being rather hateful in its own very special ways), I used rpm on Solaris. But that was in 1996/7, when rpm 3 was fairly focused and not excessively (Jeff Johnson, looking at you!) convoluted. I had use patterns that just worked. But as it tumbled toward version 4, everything I wanted to do broke and I found that I really had to *be concerned with* rpm to keep my package base up. That was enough of that. I just wanted to use it, not to have a relationship. Now I just hate all packaging systems. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT University of Chicago
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