[indiana-discuss] scope (was Re: ZFS to the max)

Doug Scott dougs at truemail.co.th
Mon Jul 9 10:45:24 PDT 2007


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Doug Scott wrote:
>> Where is the compatibility problem exactly. We do have certain build 
>> processes such as pkgbuild that map out the dependencies. These are 
>> easily modified to accept whatever it is changed to. 
>
> Only JDS uses pkgbuild - the rest of the consolidations have static
> depends files you will need to manually edit when package names change,
> and then there's all the unbundled software packages for
> Solaris/OpenSolaris, software from places like blastwave and third-party
> ISV's who list package dependencies in their packages.
>

Alan where did SUNWpcre go? If you are so worried about such a change 
then you should have been up in arm's when it went south. I had to 
"manually" edit package names. I got over it! If it is advertised, then 
why is there a problem. It happens in Solaris Express now.

Doug



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