[indiana-discuss] Adopt Indiana personalities (GNU and SUN)

[Josh Lange]

Because the same can be said about bringing packages (noarch rpms)/scripts
over from a GNU/Linux based system.

I personally view the core sun userland utilities as the legacy piece of
software here ;-) .

Josh


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Kyle McDonald <KMcDonald at egenera.com> wrote:

>  Josh Lange wrote:
>
> I see the advantage as being able to SVR4 scripts seemlessly (have
> SUN_PERSONALITY set automatically by the package manager), as well as
> letting users opt to have all their scripts/commands to work just as they
> would on another sun box (ex. in the case of networked home directories,
> legacy, etc).
>
>  It seems like the easiest way to do that would be to leave the sun stuff
> in /usr/bin (for all the reasons you wrote above, and more) and stick
> /usr/gnu/bin first in the default path of all users (probably except root.)
>
> Isn't that the best of both worlds?
>
> The /usr/has/bin thing is really orthogonal, since it's not a sun v.s gnu
> thing. It's an old Sun/SVR4 vs. new Sun/SVR4 thing.
>
>   -Kyle
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Brandorr wrote:
> > > Regarding the Sun vs. GNU userspace issue, might we consider following
> > > Nexenta's lead here?
> > >
> > > http://www.nexenta.org/os/Different_Personalities
> > >
> > > The default behavior of NexentaOS is to search for execution binaries
> > > in order described in the PATH. Standard locations such as /usr/bin
> > > and /usr/sbin all populated with GNU binaries, which makes NexentaOS
> > > behave as GNU system. SUN binaries saved in /usr/sun/bin and
> > > /usr/sun/sbin locations and system could be forced to use SUN-like
> > > personality by utilizing SUN_PERSONALITY environment variable.
> > >
> > > SUN_PERSONALITY execve() system call logic implemented and it is
> > > finally allows Solaris-centric scripts to be executed in NexentaOS
> > > without modifications.
> > >
> > > Simple SUN_PERSONALITY=1 environment variable will switch execution
> > > paths on the fly to look on /usr/sun/{bin,sbin} first.
> >
> >  Sounds like a lot of work that is much more simply handled by setting
> > $PATH - why would changing exec be better than setting $PATH to the
> > value you want?
> >
> > --
> >        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> >         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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