I would guess that the 3.0rc2 and the 3.0 final build are the same then. And that's what the RC (release candidate) is for.
-Alfred On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Greg Earle <earle at isolar.dyndns.org> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
