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Saturday 13 October 2007 - Filed under Process

Danek and I are at the 2007 OpenSolaris Developer Summit at UC Santa Cruz, talking about and, I hope, later demonstrating the image packaging prototype so far. I gave a brief overview of the project’s goals and status, and mentioning some of the unmentionables we’ve encountered—some particularly undisciplined configuration files, some apparently important but encumbered drivers, and so on.

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2007-10-13  »  Stephen

  • Tony Kocurko

    Although I will probably be retired (1 year,
    8 months and change from now) by the time
    a Solaris sys admin will be able to type

    # apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

    to patch a system, it is good to know that there
    are people in Sun who know that, to user Mr.
    Hahn’s words, "Software updates on S10 [are]
    complex (when not disastrous".

    Good luck to you and your team.

    By the way, I’ve been in the business since
    1975 and a SunOS and Solaris sysadmin since
    1993. When I switched first to RedHat with
    rpm and then, finally, to Ubuntu/Debian with apt-get,
    I thought that I had died and gone to sys
    admin heaven.

    I still administer a Sun cluster. The attempt
    to get Sun Update Connection running the way
    it was advertised (i.e., the cluster head
    node as an update connection proxy for the
    other cluster nodes) finally was given up as
    undoable and we settled for a standalone
    update connection client on the cluster head
    node. That a sensible (e.g., something on the
    order of Debian’s apt-get or Gentoo’s emerge)
    update system isn’t delivered with Solaris is
    terrible.

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