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

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Thu Dec 23 18:59:41 CET 2010


On 12/21/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Based on this, here are ideas for check updates:
>
> - binary depends on a shared library provided by a SUNW package =>
> suggest depending on that package
> - the needed shared library is in a different package on Solaris 9
> than it is on Solaris 10 => suggest building separate packages for 9
> and 10.

please dont do this as a general case check. not even just a
'recommends', becuase people tend to just do everything gar checkpkg
says, it would seem.

its annoying unless, as I said, it's a "rare" package.

It also makes installing our packages on opensolaris more difficult.


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