Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

John Plocher John.Plocher at Sun.COM
Tue Jun 10 17:47:57 PDT 2008


Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I had in mind that users could download a version of OpenSolaris which 
> only had the 64-bit binaries

The IPS stuff lets (will let?) us build "fat" packages with SPARC, x64,
PPC, ... 32 and 64 bit content and put it into the IPS repos, where the
installer could download only the image specific bits that are needed
by the platform in use.

As they say, not this case.

   -John




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