Richard Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:

> The sun4u support was removed long after the source tree closed,
> unless you broke something your OS works fine on those machines.

Correct, but Sun removed drivers that people with sun4u machines like to have.
This is e.g. why Martin likes to start with snv_125 - I am quoting Martin here.


Having brought back the Sun-removed SVr4 package support in SchilliX-ON, I 
know that this kind of work is nothing you can do quickly. But maybe, this 
driver task is simpler, as I expect the drivers to be in a consistent state 
before removal. The SVR4 package meta data on the other side was never in a 
consistent state as the SVR4 package meta from Sun did depend on files that 
where neither in the source tree nor in the closed source tarball.

BTW: the IPS meta data was also in an inconstsient state but IPS silently 
ignores missing files....so the package creation did not abort. Did you fix 
that for Illumos?

Jörg

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