tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post2778290750490168340..comments2023-11-11T19:20:51.515+00:00Comments on The Trouble with Tribbles...: Tribblix - minimal plus pkgsrcPeter Tribblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09363446984245451854noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post-59510706878416323512019-11-04T15:24:18.627+00:002019-11-04T15:24:18.627+00:00ravenports build their packages on Solaris 10u8. I...ravenports build their packages on Solaris 10u8. I think it's the reason why they've a very limitted set of packages.<br /><br />https://github.com/jrmarino/Ravenports/wiki/quickstart-sunos<br /><br />They could change their mind in the future but don't expect anything about them now. I think it's also unnecessary to use ravenports' prebuilt packages. They ported FreeBSD's pkg to Solaris. You should just grab it and instead of converting IPS packages to SVR4 packages you convert them to FreeBSD's pkg package format, so you could utilize FreeBSD's pkg for package management. Now you have a modern package manager with dependency handling and also suitable to use with UFS, since it doesn't require ZFS like IPS pkg. You could integrate it with zap so command like zap install-overlay xfce still works as usual, keeping perfect compatibility. It's my own thinking, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post-73003109625671400492019-11-03T18:30:53.683+00:002019-11-03T18:30:53.683+00:00It appears that pkgsrc have made some changes, whi...It appears that pkgsrc have made some changes, which isn't entirely helpful. I still see the modular-xorg metapackage, though. They've updated Xfce to the new 4.14 release, and removed the metapackage along the way. All of the Xfce pieces are there still, just not so convenient to install.<br /><br />These types of unexpected changes are why it's important for a distro to manage its own core packages.<br /><br />ravenports might be interesting; I'll have to look more closely. It does appear very limited, though - one advantage of pkgsrc is that it's coverage is so broad.Peter Tribblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09363446984245451854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post-28068056237870689802019-10-29T13:20:59.958+00:002019-10-29T13:20:59.958+00:00Joyent's pkgsrc no longer offers modular-xorg ...Joyent's pkgsrc no longer offers modular-xorg and xfce package, when I use pkgin to search it only shows some modular-xorg-* but not the meta package itself, search for xfce only show elementary icon. So it's useless for a desktop system now.<br /><br />And could you add an overlay for ravenports? It's similar to Joyent's pkgsrc but utilizes FreeBSD's pkg instead of pkgin. It doesn't offers a complete xorg meta package so it also useless for a desktop system, too. But I think it will have great potential.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com