I went to grab the supposedly-final Thunderbird 3.0 release, and found
a Solaris pkg in the "/pub/thunderbird/releases/3.0/contrib/
solaris_pkgadd" directory, so I decided to use that.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the Thunderbird package
contained therein is
miplsun2:1:53 [/var/spool/pkg] # pkgadd -d thunderbird-3.0.en-
US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc-pkg
The following packages are available:
[...]
7 SFWthunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird email/news client
(sparc) 3.0rc2,REV=110.0.4.2009.12.02.15.13
Why is there a 3.0rc2 package bundled with the 3.0 final release???
All the packages in the "/pub/thunderbird/releases/3.0/contrib/
solaris_pkgadd" directory are exactly the same size as the ones in the
"/pub/thunderbird/releases/3.0rc2/contrib/solaris_pkgadd" directory!
Same thing with the .../solaris_tarball files as well.
Why is that?
The 3.0 source tarball is larger than the 3.0rc2 source tarball. Even
if just the version numbers were changed, and nothing else,
recompiling the Solaris package sizes should've changed the sizes. I
don't see why 3.0rc2 packages were re-posted as being "3.0."
- Greg
