Hi Shawn, Many thanks for getting back to me on this.
On 24 Jan 2011, at 20:55, Shawn Walker wrote: <snip> > There are currently no resources assigned to ensure that pkg(5) remains cross > platform capable. With that said, reasonable efforts are generally made to > see that it does. *nods* > However, keep in mind that on Solaris 10, only pkg.depotd(1M) is expected to > be used. pkg(1) isn't -- managing packages with pkg(5) on Solaris 10 is not > recommended unless the target image is a user image that will never be > touched by the old SVr4 package management system. Absolutely - a user image for a prefix not shared with other package management systems is exactly what I mind. <snip> > That would be because /usr/bin/patch is GNU patch on Solaris Express / > OpenSolaris systems. If you want to file a bug for that, it sounds entirely > reasonable to call /usr/bin/gpatch instead if the platform is 'SunOS'. I'll produce a patch for this and submit it with a bug report, should be fairly trivial. >> Secondly, M2Crypto uses SWIG to generate python bindings for >> functions in OpenSSL. One of those is ENGINE_load_openssl, which >> isn't present in OpenSSL on Solaris 10. Fixing this is fairly easy, >> the patch is: > > That one I'm not so certain about. Keep in mind that we deliver the Python > bindings for all consumers. If you have a way to make this change only for > Solaris 10, that's probably acceptable. I'll see if there's a simple way of doing this, and if there is provide a patch+bug report. If there isn't, it's probably not worth fixing - anyone building this will use google and find my blog post with the workaround. > In general, pkg(5) isn't regularly tested or maintained on anything other > than Solaris Express builds at this point. Understood! > I suspect Solaris 10 usage will be revisited at a later date. But for the > moment, you'll have to do the heavy lifting on your own. Thanks again. I think IPS working well on Solaris 10 may be a potential way of coercing enterprises resisting Solaris 11 into warming to it. If they can have a unified package system across both their new and old servers, that could be compelling. Certainly that's what we're hoping to achieve. Cheers, Alasdair _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
