On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:47:02PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote: > Darren J Moffat writes: > > > While I appreciate all the testing and work that has been done and the > > fact that the Makefiles look for /opt/onbld and /opt/SUNWonbld I really > > don't think this change is worth it. This seems like change for the > > sake of complying to the exact letter of some best practice. Is there a > > real problem being solved by no longer using the /opt/onbld path ? > > It's primarily so the package complies with Sun's own rules.
You could just change the name of the package. :) > > Particularly when we are now less likely to use the SUNW prefix for > > various (I assume all obvious) reasons. > > I'm not too certain about this: even when the Sun stock ticker symbol > changed from SUNW to JAVA, no packages were changed to match, and I'd > hope this will stay this way ;-( Yup, everything's switching over to ORCL. ;-P > > I'd really like to hear from other ON developers on this. > > Agreed. On the other hand, it would have been good if a comment like > this had been made earlier in the game, like in the CR ... It can be really hard to say "that's not useful work", but I think that's the case here, at least for the directory rename part of it. The rule suggesting /opt/<pkgname> is hardly written in stone. Danek _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
