On 20 May 2012 18:00, Milan Jurik <[email protected]> wrote: > SUNWarbel/driver-network-arbel should be removed > And my question is - what should I do with this? > > My recommendation is to obsolete it for now. We have no official builds > so I cannot set some stable PKGVERS but:
I believe obsoleting manifests is certainly the current preference, as per "EOFs and Removals" in usr/src/pkg/README.pkg, with the caveat you've noted: $(PKGVERS) rather than a particular version. I EOFed the pkcs11 KMS bits recently (#2111) and left this in place of the original manifest: http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/pkg/manifests/system-library-security-crypto-pkcs11_kms.mf We should probably update README.pkg to reflect *our* practice, rather than Sun's. > We can remove manifests e.g. a year later after it will be propagated to > OI and other distros as obosoleted and this will lead to freezing of it > in OI repository. I think that with the way things work at the moment we'll be wanting to leave them in place indefinitely. Distributions that actually use the packaging metadata to build packages can freeze PKGVERS in their downstream builds of illumos if they wish, and other distributions will be unaffected. Leaving these files around in the gate (without a fixed PKGVERS) doesn't immediately seem to pose a particularly big problem. It also avoids the requirement for coordination with our resource-constrained community of distributions at this point. -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
