Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Paul Cunningham napsal(a):
>>
>> Nils Goroll wrote:
>> ... cut ...
>>>> But main reason is to be sync with S10 packages. It is why I have
>>>> been thinking to postpone this to the 8.4 integration. We cannot
>>>> change it for S10. Only what I can do is correctly set --syconfigdir
>>>> to /etc.
>>> OK. Though I don't understand why a patch can't introduce a package or
>>> what else the specific issues with s10 are, I'll
>>>
>>> - remove the additional package
>> personally I think you should keep this new 'root' package as Solaris
>> Nevada and s10 are two very different beasts now, and it's therefore
>> better to correct wrong stuff rather than propagate it.
>
> Paul, do not forget that Opensolaris 2008.5 is released. Which also adds
> complexity to maintain more Solaris releases. I agree wrong stuff should be
> fixed but in this case the "wrong" is really small and fix could add more
> problems.
OpenSolaris 2008.05 & later releases do not use the existing Solaris
patch mechanism, and merge /usr & root packages into a single IPS
package, so it's not really the same.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
