[indiana-discuss] License and redistribution of the OpenSolaris updates

[Mike Gerdts]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Tim Cramer <Timothy.Cramer at sun.com> wrote:
> A final example is that Sun will sell support for 2008.05.  Packages
> with fixed escalations will be put into a special paid repository
> available to holders of support licenses, and fixed in the next general
> release of OpenSolaris (note: since the change will go into the main
> codeline, anyone running the latest build would be able to also get the
> fix, but would have to run that latest build to get it and would be on
> an unsupported branch of the code).

Has any consideration been given to having an authenticated mercurial
and/or OpenGrok repository available to those customers that are
paying for support and would like to see the code for the bits that
they are running?  The most important use case here is to be able to
write dtrace scripts that are using the fbt provider when debugging
thorny problems.  Looking at Nevada code and making sense of Solaris
10 behavior is getting increasingly difficult.

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Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/