Re: [SAGE] Looking for call management/helpdesk software

[Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:43:08PM -0800, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> 
> The lack of apt-get is what kills me on Solaris.

Thats what pkg-get is for.

Then you have to decide which package repository to use.

It originally started with sunfreeware.com. However, sunfreeware.com
does not have package dependancies, which rather puts a damper on
chaining automatic package installations.
So, a new, multiperson cooperative effort (more along the lines of Debian!)
has started up:

http://www.blastwave.org/

100 packages so far. 

You can do fun things like

  pkg-get install mod_php


and have it chain along the dependancies, and install all 9 of the
dependancy packages listed at

 http://www.blastwave.org/packages/mod_php

one of which is apache itself.

Hmm. actually, I think it is 10 dependancies, because php depends on 
openldap, which depends on berkeleydb4. Multi-level dependancies are not
shown in the above url ;-)