[csw-maintainers] Fwd: [csw-users] Warning: Latest Clamav does not work on old Sparcs

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 22.01.2009 um 19:32 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:00:16PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>
>> Phil, this [sparc executables not v8] would be nice to catch in  
>> checkpkg.
>
> yes, it would :) but it's tricky, which is why I havent implemented it
> previously.
>
> The problems being that
>
> 1. not all executables HAVE to be in /opt/csw/bin
> 2. some executables are LEGITIMATELY non vanilla v8.
>
> Best I could do, would be to look at executables in /opt/csw/bin only.
> Which would still potentially miss somethings, but would at least  
> catch
> more than is being done now.

You could search for all binaries. Every binary must conform to v8/i386
with the exception of binaries residing in directories named after the  
ISA,
e. h. sparcv9/<binary> may contain a binary with sparcv9. That is at  
least
true for all GAR builds as far as I know of.


Best regards

   -- Dago