On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:34 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM Tim Rühsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > On 5/2/19 2:15 PM, Darshit Shah wrote: > > > That is a terrible suggestion. Please don't do that or suggest it. > > > I'm sure Jeffrey here is capable of knowing what this is and what the > > > implications of such a binary are. > > > > I wouldn't call it 'terrible', but it's definitely not a good idea for > > multi-user production environments :-) > > > > It demonstrates the principle for a system where absolutely nothing else > > uses python3 - that's what Jeff was claiming. And so nothing breaks. > > It is even not easily possible (or just unwanted !?) to install python3; > > if it was easy, Jeff wouldn't have posted the question, I guess. > > Yeah, so this is Solaris. Oracle dismantled the packages system to get > folks to upgrade or buy a support contract. I can't even run 'pkg > update' without errors because Oracle deleted their signing keys. > > I did try to build Python from sources about a year ago. I had some > had trouble (but don't recall what it was). Then I learned Solaris > wasn't really a supported platform for Python. They were not really > interested in testing the platform and fixing the problems.
By the way I did try to install Python3. And here's what it looks like trying to run update: $ sudo pkg update Creating Plan (Package planning: 1/10): / pkg update: Chain was rooted in an untrusted self-signed certificate. The package involved is pkg://solaris/consolidation/ddt/ddt-incorporation@18.3.1 8.7.13,0.5.11-11.4.0.0.1.11.0:20180718T212443Z Oracle deleted their keys and removed access to their 11.3 repos. At this point about all I can do is make the best of things and truck on. Jeff