On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:08:49PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Nicolas Williams writes: > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:01:28AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > > I don't think it would. We'd end up with multiple versions of that > > > library delivered (one through quagga.net and the other through ON), > > > and all the problems that causes. We'd be hard-pressed to keep the > > > forked sources in sync, and make sure the right thing happens on each > > > platform. > > > > That's not what I meant. The libdlpi contributed to Quagga would get > > built only when it doesn't exist on the build (target) system. Thus > > there wouldn't be two versions of libdlpi being delivered on any version > > of Solaris. > > I don't think that works too well. Consider what happens when some > open source repository (such as blastwave or similar) compiles Quagga > on Solaris 8: they're building packages intended to run on that > version of Solaris *and* all newer ones.
It doesn't have to be that way. There's no reason you couldn't say (and enforce, via packaging scripts) that this package does not support newer versions of Solaris except on OpenSolaris. But I think this is moot. Nico --
