On 29-Jan-07, at 9:56 AM, Stephen Lau wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
John Sonnenschein wrote:
Hello,
As everyone probably knows, the one thing keeping a fully open-
source OpenSolaris distro from happening is the godforsaken
libc_i18n.a in closed_bins. The rest of closed_bins can be
replaced with BSD/GNU code should the distro manager deem it
neccessary.
I'm not sure everything else in closed_bins can be replaced with
BSD/GNU code.
For example, while in theory it should be possible to use Racoon
rather than the closed_bins in.iked it is a non trivial amount of
work. If you don't do that you don't have any IKE for IPsec.
Thats just one example.
Right, but I think what John was driving at was that those other
closed-binaries aren't required to build.
The only closed binaries required to build are libc_i18n and
libdisasm (on sparc only, it's open on x86). So if we can replace/
reengineer those two - then we at least have a minimal completely-
open build.
Precisely,
While it would be ideal to not have closed bins at all, I think the
most pressing part ought to be the part of closed bins that you
simply *cannot* use opensolaris without. If I were to build an
opensolaris distro with the caveat that IPSec doesn't work, fine...
at least I can build one. At the moment this is impossible
-John
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