[csw-users] Initial Solaris Installation and Blastwave Package Installation

[Chris Turkel]

On 9/11/07, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
>
> > I was wonder, does it make sense to install the minimal Solaris 10 OS
> > packages and then install only the blastwave software packages. For
> > instance, if I wanted the gnome enviroment. I would install Solaris
> without
> > gnome then install it with 'pkg-get install gnome' after setting up the
> > blastwave pkg-gt.conf file. I ask because my gnome setup is acting up
> where
> > the gnome-panels don't load.  I assume  its because I have Sol10 package
> > libraries and Blastwave packages where dependencies are in conflict. Any
> > help is appreciated.
> >
> > tflande
>
> I sometimes do testing like this.
>
> If one thinks about it, the stack of software from Blastwave has pretty
> much
> every software feature that you would get in stock Solaris 10 plus about
> 1000 other software packages. The libraries and dependencies are built to
> resolve within the /opt/csw file tree and only link with SUN provided
> packages when absolutely needed. Our build of bash is actually up to date
> where the version that comes with Solaris 10 update 4 is still lagging way
> behind.
>
> The GNOME suite is very large and a lot of work goes into testing it. i
> have
> personally poured endless nights and days into testing. It will work all
> on
> its own stand-alone in Solaris 8 upwards.
>
> That was always the plan.
>
> In fact, one could easily build an OpenSolaris based distro with just core
> functions in it and then drag in the Blastwave software for userland
> stuff.
>
> Dennis



I use Blasewave's Gnome all the time. It rocks. Do you know if it is
possible to install Solaris without JDS? Have two of everything eats up a
lot of disk space.

Chris
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