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Package Manager in the OpenSolaris IPS
The Image Packaging System (IPS) in OpenSolaris 2008.05 comes with a graphical user interface known as the Package Manager that features install/remove packages, package repository search, package information, and more.
“I also noticed that I could use the CLI as well as the GUI simultaneously which struck me, since all the package management systems such as ‘apt-get’, allow only a single instance of the package manager running,” writes a
fascinated Amit Kumar Saha. In an inquiry to the OpenSolaris pkg-discuss, the following response was given:
“AFAIK IPS does not do locking (yet). So running multiple UIs at the same time can produce unpredictable results. See bug: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1668”
Saha offers an image example of the GUI and links for more on the IPS on his weblog.
