On 05/03/12 15:20, DaB. wrote:
In puppet (our server-managment-programm) I have now a HUGE list of liberies and software to install for the solaris-server – but the names of the packages does not match with the debian-package-names of course. I would need weeks to figure out what belongs to what – I do not have to time (and to admit: also not the motivation) to do this.
Is the list available somewhere, to crowdsource the mapping? (the plan of starting from basic things looks good, too)
At the end, only the following stuff will remain at willow: *tools of people who are <s>too lazy</s>too busy to move their stuff *tools which can not run on Debian for some reasons *tools of users who left the TS
Remember that some TS-specific programs like setpass or acctrenew can only work in Solaris. They don't seem hard to rewrite, but it's something to keep into account.
That is a nice plan, but it would not work, because most users are not capable to tell what liberies they need. And it is BTW not a problem to have a libery installed that is not used (because we have enough free space for that).
Some automatic non-exhaustive dependency check would be easy. ldd on elf files, grep import on .py ones, etc.