[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: semonkey at opensolaris.org project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

[Martin Bochnig]

UNIX admin wrote:

>Otherwise, you run the risk of never being a suitable candidate for production environments, like banks, insurance companies, industrial corporations, the military, government, etcetera: you simply won't have enough compatibility with stock Solaris and will diverge too far from it.
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Those high security institutions will never trust non-SUNW compiled code
either way.

>It's basically going down the same route Nexenta and BeleniX have taken. Are you sure that that's the future you want for your distribution?
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???

Nextenda and Belenix are two completely different things.
Plus I don't see any of them "going down".

Nextenda uses .deb packaging.
Belenix on the other hand does use pkgadd.

>No, you do not. That's solved via a "foundation package". And in this foundation package, if you are careful and think things through, you could use the AutoMounter facility to do the NFS mounting for you, if need be.
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ok

>Ironically enough, Blastwave has such a thing, "CSWcommon",
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I know.

> but they haven't used it to solve that problem; they don't even *enforce* a standard set of permissions on the directory structure that CSWcommon delivers, or their packaging guidelines aren't stringent enough, because there were quite a few packages from Blastwave that wanted to change permissions.
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I once posted something to the csw list.
But didn't get too friednly, nor very much, responsed.
I'm btw no longer on that list.

Thanks for your input, UNIXadmin.
I will need more of it!

Regards,
Martin