Doug Scott wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Doug Scott wrote:
>>> Where is the compatibility problem exactly. We do have certain build
>>> processes such as pkgbuild that map out the dependencies. These are
>>> easily modified to accept whatever it is changed to.
>>
>> Only JDS uses pkgbuild - the rest of the consolidations have static
>> depends files you will need to manually edit when package names change,
>> and then there's all the unbundled software packages for
>> Solaris/OpenSolaris, software from places like blastwave and third-party
>> ISV's who list package dependencies in their packages.
>>
>
> Alan where did SUNWpcre go? If you are so worried about such a change
> then you should have been up in arm's when it went south. I had to
> "manually" edit package names. I got over it! If it is advertised, then
> why is there a problem. It happens in Solaris Express now.
I don't know what happened to SUNWpcre, and I'm not worried about most
changes - the ones to worry about are ones where many people have
dependencies. When I split SUNWxwplt (the X Window system "platform"
package), I created SUNWxsun-server and the like, but left the core
libraries in SUNWxwplt because I knew lots of other packages listed
that to get libX11, etal. The number of packages with this many
dependencies on them is small though, and if the packaging system is
updated to add aliases as was suggested elsewhere, even they can be
renamed.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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