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23 August 2007

back at square one [Solaris, pmpkg] — Patrick Georgi @ 23:00

So I’m back to Solaris again - given the massive growth of the software stack over the last few years, including several proprietary components (hello adobe flash), it seems getting harder and harder for smaller systems to keep up.

Even with all the troubles OpenSolaris has, starting from there still looks like an easier path than moving to a smaller system - sadly. Those were the days, where one developer could understand the whole system that he holds in his hands… *sigh*

Anyway, I promptly worked a bit on pmpkg, and implemented digests (as optimization, not as security check for now), updated some things here and there and I’m planning on lint functionality, both for package sources in pmpkg as well as the resulting package (necessary due to the dynamic design of pmpkg - we don’t require packages to match a given file packing list, but we want to enforce a certain set of constraints).

Also restarting is my effort to get into the ONNV tree - my toolchain bootstrap script is updated, and I think I’ll work on hg2mtn next.

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