I do wonder though, if the time has come to remove the various SUNW* obsolete manifests. They were only relevant for people updating from very much older versions of OpenSolaris. I don't think such people are around who are likely to be looking to update to illumos, and for those that are, an interim step of updating to b147 or thereabouts, can solve the problem.
I imagine that distros other than OpenIndiana (and perhaps Circonus', although I've not looked at it) have *zero* interest or even ability to use those older manifests. (Where OI's interest is probably not quite zero, but vanishingly small...) - Garrett On May 20, 2012, at 2:07 AM, "Joshua M. Clulow" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/182180/22003744-45f01c1f > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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
