packages on solaris 9

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Riccardo,

> Am 08.02.2015 um 13:25 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
> 
> Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński wrote:
>> 2015-02-08 12:06 GMT+00:00 Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
>>> could you please check that unstable9s has the same level of packages as
>>> unstable10s?
>> By level, do you mean versions?
> Exactly. Right now I ure have a problem with tls, icu, objc
>> 
>> A general note on S9: many packages are no longer built for S9.
>> Discrepancies between S9 and S10 package versions will keep
>> increasing. There is no fix for that other than spending effort on S9
>> package updates, but we don't want to do that.
>> 
>> You either need to update the S9 packages yourself, or drop the S9
>> build of your packages.
> In case they are missing, I'll attempt a build then. It would be a pity to drop something that works.
> The problem here is that it works with "old" versions, but I had to update the runtime dependencies and also all those nasty package overrides I need.
> 
> That said the question remains if I can mark a dependency generic on "CSWlibobjc*" or somehow, instead of CSWlibobjc4

No, you either need to make different GAR Makefiles or at least use os-specific
dependencies which is ugly, but doable. I strongly suggest not backporting the stuff
we left behind to Solaris 9 to have uniform dependencies.


Best regards

  — Dago

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