[pca] Missing sconadm on Solaris 10 1/13

[Andy Fiddaman]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, francis picabia wrote:

; On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Martin Paul <martin.paul at univie.ac.at> wrote:
; > Am 21.03.2013 17:48, schrieb francis picabia:
; >
; >> The strange thing is, I had this misplaced optimism that Ian Murdock
; >> would fix Sun's wacky series of patch tools with something fast and
; >> robust like dpkg or pkg-get.  I was totally wrong.
; >
; >
; > To be fair, they kind of did that in Solaris 11 (IPS/pkg).
; >
; > Unfortunately I will never use that - for us, the next Solaris version after
; > 10 will most probably not be 11, but "Red Hat".
;
; Interesting.  I didn't know there was a change like this for Solaris 11.
;
; I think we're going the same direction.  The maintenance contract
; cost alone on Oracle is a deal breaker.  Sun used to give Universities
; a good deal, but no longer.

We're in the process of replacing all of our SPARC Solaris 10 kit with
Dells running OpenIndiana. At least we retain the Solaris kernel and
ZFS/Crossbow/Dtrace/Zones/Backwards compatibility.

A.