[csw-maintainers] libproxy in testing

Roger Håkansson hson at opencsw.org
Fri Jan 15 18:08:30 CET 2010


Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> Am 15.01.2010 um 03:35 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
> 
>> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>> Hi Roger,
>>> Am 14.01.2010 um 13:55 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>>>> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>>> Am 05.01.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Ben Walton:
>>>>>> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Tue Jan 05 15:56:02 
>>>>>> -0500 2010:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> be needed. Thoughts?
>>>>>> 10 only.  If the devs aren't interested in older platforms and you
>>>>>> have no personal need, why go through the headache?
>>>>> The question is: Do we want to release it and make separate releases
>>>>> of packages for Solaris 8/9 vs. 10 which require it?
>>>>
>>>> libproxy is a requirement for some gnome-packages which would mean 
>>>> that we can't upgrade upgrade them without libproxy, and since some 
>>>> of those packages have dependencies on other packages which might 
>>>> get upgraded we would soon end up with a lot of Solaris8-packages 
>>>> which doesn't work.
>>> The alternatives would be:
>>> (1) wait until the project switches to C++ (should be done pretty soon)
>>>  where the standard is supported by SOS11.
>>> (2) Use GCC to compile libproxy. This would pull in gcc*rt, but would
>>>  work fine.
>>> (3) Start with Solaris 10. By definition we start at Solaris 9, although
>>>  the download stats say almost all people use Solaris 10 by now
>>>  (see http://wiki.opencsw.org/suggestions  mirror stats if you are
>>>  curious).
>>
>> And (4) Use my patches to build Solaris8-packages.
>> There are only minor changes needed to get it working. The ones I've 
>> got are not that generic that they could be submitted upstream, but 
>> for our purposes they work.
>> However, I can't get the Makefile working so packaging on both Solaris 
>> 8 and 10 works with the same Makefile (maybee not needed if only 
>> Solaris8-packages are to be released).
>> But I can commit my changes so you can finish the work.
> 
> Great, please do! I had the impression this was harder. Just take
> it over and release at will.

I committed it last night.
Do you have any example on how to modulate PATCHFILES depending not only 
on arch but also on OS?
It's not required to build Solaris 8 packages, but for completeness if 
someone checks out the code and tries to build on Solaris 10 it will 
fail right now.

I've pushed the packages to newpkgs



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