yes, METADATA would be a good place for this

- Sriram

Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 00:07 -0700, Sriram Natarajan wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>  If you can add a note as to why you need those extra patches within 
>> libxml2/libxslt that would be useful for any one looking into the below 
>> changes.
>>     
>
> Good point.  I was going to do that but forgot.  Is it okay to
> add that under COMMENTS in METADATA or is that for something else?
> I couldn't find any precedent in the existing code.
>
> Laca
>
>   
>> - Sriram
>>
>> Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
>>     
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~laca/libxml2-2.7.6/ fixes the following
>>> bugs:
>>>
>>> 6745178 update libxml2 to 2.7.1 (or later)
>>> 6832483 Python libxml not available for 2.5, 2.6
>>> 6849500 libxslt need to be updated within opensolaris
>>>
>>> Updates libxml2 to the latest (2.7.6), removes upstream patches
>>> and adds some new patches that fix bugs discovered since the
>>> release of 2.7.6.  "globals.patch" makes some private functions
>>> public.  These functions used to be public and are included in
>>> the Solaris mapfile.  The patch effectively reverses the change
>>> that made them private.
>>>
>>> Also updates libxslt to the latest (1.1.26).
>>>
>>> In both modules, the Python bindings are built twice: for
>>> Python 2.4 and for Python 2.6.  The 2.6 bindings are in
>>> new packages SUNWlxml-python26 and SUNWlxsl-python26.
>>>
>>> Please review.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Laca
>>>
>>>
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