[csw-maintainers] dropping support for solaris 9?

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

2011/9/5 Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org>:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Also, dropping official support does not preclude building packages
>> for it at need/want.  Most people will abandon 9 for builds when we
>> mark it unsupported, but a few packages will likely still be built for
>> it.  I think Peter B still builds pkgutil packages for 8.  The key is
>> that you, as a maintainer, are no longer bound to build for it doing
>> 10-only packages in edge cases.
>
> The build hosts may be available yet but it's much harder to build
> packages for Solaris 8 now than it used to be since we also dropped
> support for Solaris 8 in our own tool chain. It's impossible to run
> modern GAR/checkpkg on the Solaris 8 build hosts. Also I have failed
> in more ways than I can count to upload Solaris 8 packages to our
> catalogs.

It can be done manually, but the more low-level pkgdb tool.

> If we are to support Solaris 9 (and maybe even 8) in a limited way
> there should still be a way to get those packages to our users in a
> way that is not totally exhausting. Some verified documentation should
> exist on how to proceed.
>
> In general I'm all for dropping Solaris 9 after October though.

We could ask users whether there's any interest in Solaris 9, and if
so, which packages are used on Solaris 9.  If it's something like,
say, openssh and coreutils, we could keep on updating these two.

Maciej