[csw-users] solaris 9 pkgs on solaris 10

[Neal A. Lucier]

James Lee wrote:
> On 27/01/06, 18:42:28, Neal "A." Lucier <nlucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote
> regarding [csw-users] solaris 9 pkgs on solaris 10:
> 
>> My NFS server, where I install all the CSW packages, is running Solaris
>> 10; however, all my clients are running Solaris 9.
> 
>> This is causing some apps to fail in weird ways and others are failing
>> in perfectly normal ways, like not being able to find the correct
>> version of zlib.
> 
>> So, I want to install all the 5.9 packages on my NFS server instead of
>> the 5.10 packages.  It looks like I could just change the following line
>> in /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get:
>> OSREV=`uname -r`
>> to:
>> OSREV=5.9
> 
>> Is this all I have to do and everything will "just work"?
> 
> No.  The OSREV is where pkg-get looks for the packages to download.
> It forms a URL like $MIRROR/$CPU/$OSREV/$PACKAGE.  This allows for it
> to download packages specifically for your arch.  Currently there are
> no differences between 5.8, 5.9 and 5.10 and if you look closely you
> will see that for stable the directories are symbolic links to 5.8,
> (warning, this might change in the future).  The reason for your
> problems must be something else.
> 
> Some packages compensate for the one file suits all arches by having a
> postinstall or classes that do different things depending on the osrev,
> sendmail is one example.  I expect most of these are doing things in
> /etc/ which you are not exporting anyway.  I can see no reason why zlib
> would have problems.
> 
> Running ldd sometimes shows programs looking for a zlib version that
> it can't find but this doesn't matter, ignore this:
> 
>         libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
> 

James,

Thank you for your response.  In checking unstable/sparc/5.10/ again I 
see that there are only 2 pkgs built for 5.10 (flightgear_base and 
tkdiff), neither of which I use, and I was unaware that the libz message 
didn't matter.

The problem I was having was with:
/opt/csw/bin/convert filename.ps filename.jpg
producing bad jpg files.

The user reported it working on 5.10 but not 5.9 when in reality 
'/usr/sfw/bin/convert' works on 5.10 and '/opt/csw/bin/convert' fails on 
both.

I will see if I can get some test .ps files and perhaps file a bug 
report once I figure out more.

Thanks,
Neal