On Dec 2, 2007 5:50 AM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The unthinkable has happened: SunOS backwards compatibility has been broken.
You are aware that Indiana hasn't gone through ARC yet and is an early prototype; right? > Broken: > root's home directory is in /root; this is a SEVERE ERROR. We're not on > Linux, and this isn't Linux land! I wasn't aware that Sun had any documentation that guaranteed root's home. How does this break backwards compatibility? Personal preferences do not count here. > Broken: > all my System V compliant packages are no longer installable, instead > `pkgadd` exits with exit code 1 (fatal error), because > /var/sadm/install/contents is empty. There was a bug in the version of pkgadd that was initially released, an update is available. Look here for instructions to update: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-November/003777.html I have installed a few System V packages myself without an issue. However, yes, it is likely that there will not be 100% package dependency compliance. However, I don't think Sun has ever guaranteed that either. > Broken: > after the installation, the system was rendered unbootable. I had to go into > the BIOS and play Russian roulette (I have four identical drives) to find the > drive "Indiana" was on, and edit GRUB lines with the correct "root (hd3,0,a)" > to be able to boot. No trace of detecting Windows XP professional on my first > drive (this is a documented issue though, but the first one isn't). > Please file a bug at http://defect.opensolaris.org I did not have this issue personally. > Broken: > even after editing /boot/grub/menu.lst, GRUB still "wouldn't take"; changes > weren't visible in the GRUB boot menu. Again, this is an early prototype "Developer Preview" not a final release, and not a fully QA'd one. > Broken: > default shell given to root and to myself is /bin/bash; this is a SEVERE > ERROR (the worst of all). Not only do I not want to have to go and modify the > system to remove that bash GARBAGE of a shell, it's unacceptable to have to > do that for every engineering cycle of a new build. > This was a last minute change that hasn't gone through ARC yet. Discussions are still under way as to what the shell will be. It is premature to call this a severe error until a comittment has been made for this interface change. In short, why didn't you send this to indiana-discuss? This is not a final QA'd, and ARC'd release. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
