[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

Brian Smith brian at briansmith.org
Fri Jan 16 10:52:33 PST 2009


Nicolas Williams wrote:
> The Indiana team evidently want GNU utils be preferred, and evidently
> would like to see the compatibility issues with Solaris utils fixed.
> 
> I see no problem with that, provided those issues are addressed, and
> I'm sure they will be.

If so, the "native Solaris" versions become superfluous and can be removed,
with the GNU versions put in their place. In that case, the RBAC profiles do
not need to be changed, the PATH issue is moot.

- Brian




More information about the indiana-discuss mailing list