[csw-maintainers] Dependencies on SUNW packages (was: newpkgs libslp1, openslp_devel)

[James Lee]

On 21/12/10, 18:41:23, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org>
wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] Dependencies on SUNW packages (was:
newpkgs libslp1, openslp_devel):

> No dia 21 de Dezembro de 2010 17:12, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>
escreveu:
> > On 12/21/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I know that we don't list the SUNW dependencies, because we can't
> >> install them, that's fair enough. Â But we probably want to ensure that
> >> our packages work when installed.

...

> > secondly... if we have a dependancy on a semi-'rare' sun package... we
> > can and SHOULD put in SUNW packages as a dependancy.
> > We dont usually bother having SUNWxxx in depend, because they are
> > probably installed anyway.

> I assumed that not depending on SUNW packages was for a different
> reason, but I guess we never discussed it.  I thought that we don't
> depend on SUNW because, for example, /usr/lib/sparcv9/libz.so.1 is in
> SUNWzlibx on Solaris 9 and in SUNWzlib on Solaris 10.  If you depend
> on SUNWzlibx, you can't install on Solaris 10 because of an unmet
> dependency.

Yes, that is exactly the conclusion we made the last time this was
discussed.  We don't control the names or in which package system files
live.

There were several cases where this caused problems and there are
reports on mantis.



James.