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

[Joerg Schilling]

Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu Dec 23 18:32:11 -0500 2010:
>
> > Again, its the opensolaris problem. If you want to be NICE to
> > opensolaris (and presuming opensolaris properly supports
> > checkinstall scripts) then best you can do, is check for existance
> > of the actual required file(s), and if not present, then and only
> > then suggest "hey you need to install the equivalent of SUNWxyz"
>
> Are we now supporting OpenSolaris officially?  IMO, OpenSolaris (or
> whatever it in the new Oracle world order) is a 'best effort' entity.
> Solaris 9 and 10 are the supported platforms, so lets make good there
> and if it also works on OpenSolaris, great.

Wasn't Sun claiming long term backwards compatibility?

If this is still true, then there should be support for both, the Sysv package 
system and the "old" package names.

Jörg

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