[geeks] Solaris 10 patching...

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 03:14 , Jonathan Groll wrote:

> I've had good experiences with pkgsrc on Nevada - it seems to have a
> cleaner base install than blastwave, and more modern packages than
> blastwave. I tried it with both the sunpro, native (i.e. sun supplied
> gcc) and a self-bootstrapped gcc; the sun supplied gcc was able to
> compile the most packages without error.

That's an idea.

Blastwave has already installed stuff that duplicates what Sun already  
has, and some packages are quite old.

I don't mind compiling the packages, so I'll have to try that.

How well does it work with zones?  Any special support for installing  
packages only in a zone instead of globally, and that sort of thing?

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