[osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

[Glenn Lagasse]

* Ignacio Marambio Cat?n (darkjoker at gmail.com) wrote:
> > good question.
> > i don't know if there is an official interface for doing this.
> > opensolaris hasn't been "arc'd" yet and i'm sure that arc would
> > love to spend a long time debating this issue.  :)
> > that said, i think your best bet would be to look at /etc/release.
> > ed
> I dont think the contents of /etc/release can be relied upon, they can
> change at any moment.
> you could check whether pkg(5) exists, if it doesnt then it's a nevada
> that doesnt support IPS or it's solaris 10

That's not reliable either.  While the IPS (pkg) team isn't porting IPS
to S10, other groups (Java I believe) have and are using IPS to
distribute their software.

Cheers,

Glenn