[install-discuss] Solaris SVR4 Packaging Tools source updated for build 52

[Glenn Lagasse]

Hi Peter,

Peter Tribble wrote:
> Glenn,
> 
> On 11/3/06, *Glenn Lagasse* <Glenn.Lagasse at sun.com 
> <mailto:Glenn.Lagasse at sun.com>> wrote:
> 
>     It's time once again for a new release of the Solaris packaging tools.
>     The source is in sync with build 52 and has just been posted.
> 
>     http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/current
>     <http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/current>
> 
> 
> I get a File Not Found error on this. Going up a level I can get to the
> files via the dated directories, but 'current' doesn't exist.

Whoops.  Forgot a symlink.  It's fixed now.  Sorry about that and thanks 
for noticing :-)

> By the way, I'm building on S10U2 and likely to be doing so for quite
> a while yet. (It's pretty easy to get around the requirement for brandz
> as the actual brand code doesn't do much, and it would be much better
> if there wasn't a hard dependency on brandz.)

Well, just like the ON sources the packaging tools sources (and the rest 
of the Install Consolidation code we're planning on releasing) are based 
on Solaris Express.  That isn't likely to change.  The fact that your 
able to compile these sources on S10anything is pure luck (well maybe 
not luck but more the fact that they haven't changed all that much in 
between S10 and solaris express (Nevada).  That's certainly not going to 
be the case for the rest of the sources once we release them.

I guess what I'm really saying is, the build requirements are to build 
on recent versions of Solaris Express (at least build 49 at this point, 
but it's always changing as flag days appear), if you can get the 
sources building on other versions great, but it's not designed nor 
expected to work that way.

I do find it interesting that your able to do this though.

Cheers,

-- 
Glenn Lagasse
KISS/Approachability
Sun Microsystems, Inc.