[csw-maintainers] libproxy in testing

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Roger,

Am 15.01.2010 um 03:35 schrieb Roger Håkansson:

> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>> Am 14.01.2010 um 13:55 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>>> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>> Am 05.01.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Ben Walton:
>>>>> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Tue Jan 05  
>>>>> 15:56:02 -0500 2010:
>>>>>
>>>>>> be needed. Thoughts?
>>>>> 10 only.  If the devs aren't interested in older platforms and you
>>>>> have no personal need, why go through the headache?
>>>> The question is: Do we want to release it and make separate  
>>>> releases
>>>> of packages for Solaris 8/9 vs. 10 which require it?
>>>
>>> libproxy is a requirement for some gnome-packages which would mean  
>>> that we can't upgrade upgrade them without libproxy, and since  
>>> some of those packages have dependencies on other packages which  
>>> might get upgraded we would soon end up with a lot of Solaris8- 
>>> packages which doesn't work.
>> The alternatives would be:
>> (1) wait until the project switches to C++ (should be done pretty  
>> soon)
>>  where the standard is supported by SOS11.
>> (2) Use GCC to compile libproxy. This would pull in gcc*rt, but would
>>  work fine.
>> (3) Start with Solaris 10. By definition we start at Solaris 9,  
>> although
>>  the download stats say almost all people use Solaris 10 by now
>>  (see http://wiki.opencsw.org/suggestions  mirror stats if you are
>>  curious).
>
> And (4) Use my patches to build Solaris8-packages.
> There are only minor changes needed to get it working. The ones I've  
> got are not that generic that they could be submitted upstream, but  
> for our purposes they work.
> However, I can't get the Makefile working so packaging on both  
> Solaris 8 and 10 works with the same Makefile (maybee not needed if  
> only Solaris8-packages are to be released).
> But I can commit my changes so you can finish the work.

Great, please do! I had the impression this was harder. Just take
it over and release at will.


Best regards

   -- Dago