Re: pkgsrc in a commercial setting: Joyent

[Min Sik Kim <minskim%bawi.org@localhost>]

On Oct 31, 2008, at 3:28 PM, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Klaus Heinz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just found Joyent (http://www.joyent.com/) who use pkgsrc on  
> > OpenSolaris
> > to build or let their customers build packages.
> >
> > Anyone heard of them before?
>
>         No - though it looks like they've been using pkgsrc since March
>         http://wiki.joyent.com/accelerators:kb:pkgsrc
>         We should definitely drop them a line to see how they are
>         getting along with pkgsrc if noone has already spoken to them :)

I am using their service.  They switched from Blastwave to pkgsrc last  
March, and the initial pkgsrc deployment was based on pkgsrc-2007Q4.   
There are binary packages for 2008Q2 as well (http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2008Q2/ 
), but I suspect many of their customers are still using 2007Q4.

The base system is pkgsrc-ready.  It has gcc-3.4.3 and all the  
required tools to bootstrap pkgsrc.  They also provide a customized  
mk.conf (http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2008Q3/mk.conf), setting many  
options useful for web services.

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Min Sik Kim