Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > The current solution for libcmd based on Sun's prefernce for
> > backwards-compatibilty and MANY MANY other issues were addressed this
> > way, too. Just renaming the Solaris version of libcmd.so and annouce a
> > "flag day" isn't even 5% of the work which would need to be done (and I
> > expect around three/four months/engineer to get that propperly done).
> 
> If the Solaris libcmd were to be renamed, I could have X & CDE modified
> to use the new one in less than an hour.   JDS would probably take about as
> long if we asked the JDS guys.    You could avoid flag day pain by adding
> a symlink or the function filters for a couple builds to allow the other
> consolidations to transition and then drop it once everyone has.
> (Unless special arrangements are made, X, CDE, and JDS normally build their
>   packages for Solaris Nevada build "n" on systems installed with Solaris
>   Nevada build n-2.   We have made special arrangements when needed, such
>   as when coordinating the Trusted Extensions integration across the
>   consolidations.)

What about Solaris 10 ? Would it be possible to make a "flag day" for
that OS release which covers all affected consolidations (e.g. consumers
of libcmd.so) ?

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Bye,
Roland

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