[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS file layout & package names vs OpenIndiana

Jason J. W. Williams jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 19:37:57 EDT 2012


Thanks Eric, it does. We'll start combing through for differences.

-J

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
> <jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does OmniOS diverge substantially from OpenIndiana in terms of base
> > filesystem layout and IPS package names? Trying to determine how much of
> our
> > Chef recipes we'd have to update to make the switch.
>
> Hi Jason,
> Since both OmniOS and OI are based on illumos, most of the packages
> and therefore the filesystem layout will be the same.  Where we
> diverge is the additional packages we each bring to complete the
> distro.  There isn't a conscious effort to keep those package names
> the same, though there is a lot of overlap.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Eric
>
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