[csw-users] SUNW dependencies

[George Wyche]

@Dennis

Jeez, Dennis go outside and see the sunshine! It'll be winter soon.
I didn't expect to find you answering this question. Thanks.

I have to deal with Solars 8, 9, and 10 (up to 11/06 ver.) in various 
states. The place where I got a job is not happy about having Solaris 
around and we had to call them "hardware control apparatus". They are 
not allowed internet access AND I'm expected (at present) to keep a low 
profile with software development on it (them). I didn't do the install 
and there were no notes about what or why for existing software. With 
the help of several on this list I created a CD with tools I use from 
Blastwave and got them all to install without complaints.

I'm still working on why Firefox (local html viewing) doesn't have all 
its symbol references satisfied, but a simple gcc on a 2 line c program 
gave me all sorts of strange errors. I got out the Solaris 8 install 
disks, but got scared off adding the Developer Packages when the install 
process (that *I* followed) demanded that I supply the ip and netmasks. 
(Low profile, remember.) So I looked through the disks and found that 
stdio.h was in the SUNWhea so I added it. MUCH BETTER compiling! Slowly 
I've been adding more SUNW packages. I extracted all of the descriptions 
(remember, no internet, no GOOGLE to see want I need) and read through 
them all for likely files. Added a bunch more. Christ. Then I had to 
reapply the leventy-dozen patches!

It has escaped me in the past that each time you add a package you gotta 
deal with patches lest the unpatched package might interfere with all of 
its more enlightened brothers who got patched.

Sigh, today at home (workin' for the man on a Saturday... for free...), 
I found that I was still missing SUNWarc. That is when I decided to see 
about "known dependencies".

I found a Solaris 8 verbose description of all official packages, even 
arranged by groups. It has specific suggestions about a minimum for 
32bit program development and a 64bit addendum. I'll put those on next 
week. When I am successful, I would like (different from actually doing 
it) to add an article to Blastwave reminding new users to check for 
package presence AND patch situation.

George Wyche

Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> @all
>> I notice in the package lists that the SUNW dependencies are not listed.
>>
>> Is this information available somewhere?
> 
> Actually no .. it is not.  We have always built packages from the
> perspective that you have Solaris 8 or higher. You can actually install a
> Solaris 8 core install ( which is real real lean ) and then install a large
> number of CSW packages.  You may need some SUNW packages that are above and
> beyond the core install eventually but certainly not the whole massive OS
> that is in the "everything plus the kitchen sink" installation options.
> 
> It has been a while since I installed a Solaris 8 core install or even a
> Solaris 10 core install but ... I think ( as in I seem to recall ) that you
> can install a lot of CSW packages based on not more than that.
> 
> So in answer to your question ... no we do not keep a list of the SUNW
> dependency requirements.
> 
> Dennis
> 
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