[indiana-discuss] disappearance of SUNWgnu-libiconv and other issues with 111a

[Shawn Walker]

Matt Ingenthron wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> The OpenSolaris 200x distribution has not been through "ARC" yet so 
>> that does not apply.
> 
> Uhhh...  The various ARC processes have been adapted to the 
> consolidations that feed into OpenSolaris and are used prodigiously when 
> looking at the integration of things into into various consolidations.  
> Trust me... I've seen the SFWNV side of this.  ipkg may be able to 
> blissfully eschew ARC in it's current lifecycle so you may not have seen 
> it, but I doubt it'll stay that way forever.

I wasn't implying that ips or anything else didn't have to go through 
ARC *eventually*, I was just pointing out that many things had not been 
through ARC *yet*.  For example, configuration changes made to the 
default $PATH, etc.

The Image Packaging System project intends to go through ARC eventually, 
just not now.

>> As I said before, the empty packages are only there because a way to 
>> obsolete packages does not exist yet, and this is currently expected 
>> (though annoying) behaviour.
> 
> I hope there's not a larger issue there.  I'll go bug the i18n people.  
> In my particular case, lack of GNU libiconv means that the perl GD 
> module won't build.  That, in turn, means some Open Source I've been 
> happily using now needs me to go resolve the dependencies for it.
> It's a big step backwards in OpenSolaris being more compatible with Open 
> Source out of the box, so I sincerely hope there isn't a removal of GNU 
> libiconv in the works for OpenSolaris 2009.06.

Well, the package is intentionally empty, and it will be delivered that 
way in 2009.06 as far as I know since build 111 is essentially 2009.06 
and it is empty for that build.  However, GNU libiconv may be delivered 
by another package under a different name or be somehow otherwise 
integrated.  I'm not the person to ask.

-- 
Shawn Walker