[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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