1) rpm.rutgers.edu:

this is a terrific resource that has some major advantages over blastwave. It will take your existing Solaris packages and migrate them to the rpm database, however this is a one shot deal and you are expected to manage your software with rpm from that point on. What do I do if I want to install a patch from sun or a new SUNW package?

2) Netbsd pkgsrc:

Rocking good software collection and spectacular cross platform goodness, but it has no concept of the host package management system. Also I miss the ability to apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade . The source base changes every quarter. I had high hopes for http://solarpack.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] but development has been dropped.

3) Sunfreeware:

Solaris packages, but no dependency info is used at all.

4) Blastwave, ibiblio, and a few others:

These systems use solaris packages, but don't integrate them with the Sun provided dependency database.

5) Sun's own Companion CD has Sun maintained packages

(albeit not very many) that do seem to do the trick.

6) Many efforts to port apt to Solaris as detailed here:

http://solarpack.sourceforge.net/links.html#solari... [sourceforge.net]