[csw-users] New project: JPack - install your software easily

[Dennis Clarke]

> Hello Jens,
>
> Am 16.5.2007 10:58 Uhr, Jens Langner schrieb:
>
>> Just want to support your feelings here. I also find the standard
>> Solaris package management cumbersome, ancient and outdated.
>> Unfortunatley the very same applies for the patch management which
>> didn't only change its names a hundred times (patchpro, smpatch, update
>> manager, etc) but is also prone to be called 'ancient' in the way
>> patches are managed - However, forunately the free "Patch Check
>> Advanced" tool solves most of the issue
>> (http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/).
>
> Installing patches on Solaris is probably the worst thing that you can
> do with Solaris. I absolutely cannot understand, why Sun is creating
> monsters like smpatch. Besides that, smpatch and all the other official
> Sun Tools to install patches do not work. I'm really wondering what Sun
> is thinking about.

 I would suggest that Ian Murdock was brought in from left field Linux land
in order to break some eggs, really really shake the place up and then
either fix this mess or simply let Solaris fall apart slowly.  The Sparc
hardware side of the business depends on the Solaris OS as a product. While
there was some effort to get a Linux running on Niagara/Sparc it is far
from being the product of choice for Sparc users.

 I see that Ian Murdock is really rocking a lot of peoples boats and there
must be screaming going on internally at Sun.  This is exactly what is
needed and I hope that this dramatic push is not too late.

Dennis Clarke
Director Blastwave.org