Solaris Software Stacks - Blastwave

The solaris installer stopped working.

Blastwave seems to be abandoned. Host/DNS references in the installer are unresolved.

Any idea to fix this?

Any Roadmap?

There is OpenCSW as a fork.

Or other Stacks like PKGSRC, used by Joyent.

With Solaris 11, OpenIndiana there is a changed packaging interface IPS.

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You're right, it appears that blastwave's download site is down :-(

There is a plan to move towards Pkgsrc, as seen on SmartOS / Joyent systems .. but it will take a fair bit of work.

I will look into migration to OpenCSW instead, as that seems like the simplest path. I have updated the installer to use OpenCWS's pkgutil package instead, but haven't tested it yet. You might want to try re-downloading and re-running the installer, and see how that goes?

Thank You.

OpenCSW could be a first and easy step. Same concept, almost same package content. just some different details.

If needed, I would like to offer you help and assistance to (beta)-test everything related to new/different software stacks on Solaris 10/11 and OpenIndiana.

I will try the new installer tomorrow and give you some status update.

Bye.

/phs

Ok, please let me know how it goes for you ..