[csw-users] unstable versus stable

[Mike Seda]

Hi Everyone,
You guys are awesome... I love blastwave... It has truly eased my 
transition from linux to solaris... I will do my best to spread the word 
about the blastwave project...
Regards,
Mike
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Mike Seda
System Administrator
LCCC Bioinformatics
UNC-CH


Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> I am running Solaris 10 U2 (sparc). Do I need to specify any
>> subdirectory under
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/stable? I noticed that
>> there is i386 and sparc. Then under that, there is 5.8, 5.9, 5.10.1,
>> 5.10, and 5.11. How does my system know which one to use? Btw, I am 30
>> minutes from ibiblio, which is why I have not changed the mirror.
>>
>>     
>
> The uname command reports the Solaris version. Actually its the SunOS
> version but that has not made sense to me since the last SunOS was in
> version 4.1.1 back in the early 90's.  The first revs of Solaris would
> report that they were SunOS 5.4 or 5.5 or even 5.5.1.  Thankfully we
> seem to have settled back into just a major and a minor number and thus
> Solaris 8 looks like so :
>
> # uname -X | grep Release
> Release = 5.8
>
> A bleeding edge copy of Solaris Nevada looks like so :
>
> $ uname -X | grep Release
> Release = 5.11
>
> This is the number used to look into the software tree to find a specific
> package IF and only IF a specific package is required.  It makes little
> sense to have a specially built version of Apache for the UltraSparc T1
> process packaged up and delivered into the 5.8 or 5.9 trees.  That would
> have to be specific to 5.10 and up.  Even then .. there are ways around
> that.
>
> Dennis
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