On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Greg Earle 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."
Although it is larger, I compared the 2 source tar balls, the files in them are identical. There is a 3.0rc3 candidate in nightly directory, we didn't build contrib for it. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0rc3-candidates/build1/ But 3.0rc3-candiate build 1 didn't go to releases directory. http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/ The size of source tarball of rc3 is the same 3.0 final release. So I think rc2 is the final one. Please ignore the version number in pkg (we probably should not add rc1, rc2 there). We usually copy the last release candidate as final release. This is how it works. Ginn > > - Greg > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
