On Thu, Jun 23, 2005, Birger Krägelin wrote:
> as we work heavily on SPARC platform, we were very disappointed, that
> Solaris 10 support on SPARC was discontinued for release 2.4. It was a
> supported platform in 2.3.
>
> What are the reasons for this decision? Is there no user base out
> there anymore?
>
> What kind of help could we give further support SPARC platform?
No, Solaris 10 is technically fully supported by OpenPKG 2.4, both under
X86 and SPARC, of course. The particular sparc64-solaris10 platform just
was not officially part of the OpenPKG 2.4 release engineering because
we just had no such platform available at that time.
As you have recognized, the OpenPKG project is now driven by the newly
established OpenPKG Foundation which in turn is sponsored by SpaceNet.
As Cable & Wireless dropped its German Hosting business, they are no
longer in the loop with OpenPKG. This especially means that no Cable &
Wireless resources are available to OpenPKG any longer. For about 95% of
all resources this no longer matters, as the OpenPKG Foundation was able
to buy enough of them.
But the OpenPKG Foundation currently owns just 2 Sun SPARC boxes. One
is running under Solaris 8 and the other is running under Solaris 9. We
decided to still include the obsolete Solaris 8 platform (the last time)
into the OpenPKG release engineering and so no machine was available
for Solaris 10/SPARC. But we are planning to switch the Sun Solaris 8
SPARC box to Sun Solaris 10 soon and this way binaries for Sun Solaris
10/SPARC will be available again in OpenPKG 2.5. Unfortunately this
then means that we no longer can provide Sun Solaris 8/SPARC binaries
(which still lots of people request). But the OpenPKG Foundation has
very limited financial resources, so we are heavily constrained.
But if someone donates a reasonable fast Sun SPARC box (we currently
prefer to use those small V210 boxes because of Hosting rack unit
constraints) to the OpenPKG Foundation we are happy to still provide
both Sun Solaris 8, Sun Solaris 9 and Sun Solaris 10 on SPARC. We
then even could still roll OpenPKG 2.4 binary sets for Sun Solaris
10/SPARC...
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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