[csw-maintainers] Our infrastructure on Solaris 9

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Tue Aug 6 11:56:33 CEST 2013


James Lee <james at opencsw.org> writes:

> I was ignored when a similar question arose for Solaris 8 but here
> goes anyway.
>
> Take a snapshot of the last working set of Solaris 9 packages and
> archive them. Do not piecemeal update as this breaks the set [as
> happened to the last the Solaris 8 set which became unusable].
>
> Thus only old system packages are provided to maintain old
> installations. Anyone using an old operating system will be more
> satisfied with an old working set than a newer broken one.

Let's not ignore this proposition this time. It has the usual common
sense that James used us to. How can we implement it and move forward?

-- 
Peter


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