[geeks] Solaris 10 patching...

[Jonathan Groll]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:32:32PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> To save time, I ended up installing Blastwave, which seems nice but  
> there is some redundancy with Sun's packages.  They explain why they  
> do it and I agree, but it still sucks.
> 
> The BSD systems stay much cleaner in that regard, by basically having  
> a package system that everyone uses, and keeping their base system  
> clean.
> 
> I was going to use sunfreeware.org, but it didn't have everything I  
> wanted, and used /usr/local/ a lot and I rather keep that for my own  
> stuff.
> 
> Anyone have long-term experience with Blastwave?
> 
> One big question right now is how well Blastwave packages integrate  
> with zones.  I've not even looked into it yet.

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.

Cheers,
Jonathan