[Yum] YUM install [package.rpm] fails on Solaris, reports success
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
office at plcomputers.net
Fri Nov 13 16:57:46 UTC 2009
Have you tried "apt-get" and "smart" for comparison?
Joshua Burns wrote:
> Thanks for the information and the suggestion. We are currently roughly
> 45% Linux, 45% Solaris, and 10% (probably less) AIX.
>
> Solaris has been declared an end-of-life environment by the global OS
> architecture team. That means that within 3-5 years, we will probably be
> 95% Linux (RHEL), and 5% AIX. Bearing this in mind, YUM/RPM again seem
> like the obvious choice.
>
> Maybe I misread things, but when researching this a lot of RPM/YUM
> proponents mentioned its cross-platform capability as a big selling
> point of the technology - and since I'm not hearing that it won't work,
> or I shouldn't do it [from the developers], I am going to at least try
> to get this issue resolved so that we can move forward.
>
> I'd rather not be stuck with some [relatively] obscure or expensive
> product that doesn't really make sense in a 95% RHEL environment in a
> few years.
>
> --- On *Fri, 11/13/09, Brian Long /<brilong at cisco.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Brian Long <brilong at cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: [Yum] YUM install [package.rpm] fails on Solaris,
> reports success
> To: yum at lists.baseurl.org
> Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:04 AM
>
> On 11/12/2009 08:29 PM, Joshua Burns wrote:
> <snip>
> the project goals include
> >
> > 1) a method of repository management, distribution and dependency
> > management, and
> > 2) a single vector/tool/technology allowing a single set of packaging
> > tools and a single repository across the enterprise
>
> I've not tried it, but this looks like what you need:
> http://www.openpkg.org/
>
> /Brian/
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