Re: Solaris packaging sucks, too

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: Solaris packaging sucks, too
Date: 20:05 on 25 May 2006
* 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.

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