[OmniOS-discuss] Packages for OminOS??

[Denis Cheong]

And don't forget opencsw as well, these packages tend to be more out of the box ready than those on ms.

For example, apache in ms still needs a lot of configuration before you can get it up and serving pages.

On 11/12/2012, at 8:21 AM, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:52 PM,  <steve at linuxsuite.org> wrote:
>> 
>>  Howdy!
>> 
>>       I am considering using OmniOS for a ZFS storage backend. I currently
>> have installed OpenIndiana, but now think that OminiOS may be a better
>> choice. A quick question - Are there OminOS packages for lighttpd and rsync
>> in repositories so that I can just do "pkg install lighttpd" ?  I couldn't
>> find
>> any?? or do I have to build packages locally?
> 
> Hi Steve,
> There is an rsync package in the official OmniOS repo, though it isn't
> installed by default.  There is a lighttpd package in the
> ms.omniti.com repo ("omniti/server/lighttpd").  See
> http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Packaging for repo details.
> 
> Note that the ms.omniti.com repo is not an officially-supported part
> of OmniOS.  We use those packages internally in our operations, and
> leave them open for public use, but we don't offer any type of support
> if you choose to run them.
> 
> Someone else may have set up a repo for their own build of lighttpd,
> and there's also the pkgsrc route, if that's interesting to you:
> http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/pkgsrc-2012Q3-packages-for-illumos.html
> 
> Eric
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