[indiana-discuss] Better update control (Was: Indiana Wish List)

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Rajiv Gunja wrote:
> ...
>
> 2. Better update and product/software installation control. i.e. pkg-get
> integrated into the OS well enough to be able to see the new/sunfree
> software from pkginfo. Or at least get a package manager similar to
> apt-get/pkg-get/yum.
> ...

Just wanted to make sure everyone is aware...  A modern packaging
system, including network based repository feature, is very much (as
in, very, *very* much) in the works now. See:

     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.indiana/807