Hi Laca, Thanks for the quick reply...
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > Hi Matt, > > On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 14:01 -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm on a quest for someone who can explain the disappearance of GNU iconv in >> build 111a. GNU iconv was in 2008.11, but the package is now empty in build >> 111a. According to Sean Walker, who pointed to the closure of a bug by >> Danek, this is expected. No reason seems to have been given on why it would >> go away, and it broke some software I'd put together on 2008.11. >> > > I don't think it was in 2008.11, I mean it was, but it was already > empty. We did ship GNU iconv in 2008.05 because some bits in the > Solaris i18n backend libraries were not redistributable and GNOME > needed something to work. But that was only for a short while. > This particular system has (and I just verified) never had anything older than 2008.11 on it. I first installed it in December of 2008. It was during an image-update (to /dev) that the GNU iconv package became empty. > Looking at your post here: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/015374.html > It shows that your libiconv was from build 75 or 79 (or a mixture of > both?!?) so you it may have been left there after image-updating from > 2008.05 to 2008.11. > I'm guessing it's shown that way since it wasn't updated from 75 or 79. You can verify this is the case by looking at a search of the current release: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/en/search.shtml?token=libiconv.so.2&action=Search Regardless, knowing that the disappearance of GNU iconv is expected is good info to have. Before it was just unexplained. :) I did, during my set of searches, discover that there were some recommendations on i18n-discuss to install GNU iconv for certain needed functions. Still, now knowing that it *shouldn't* have been there, I may be able to go back and reconfigure my software (SqueezeCenter from Logitech) to work with the built in iconv. It was a perl module using the CPAN autoconfigure functionality that wanted it. I was just trying to clean up someone else's instructions. - Matt >> I posted this to i18n discuss, with no reply: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=101866&tstart=0 >> >> There is also the original thread (best summarized as yes it's gone, but we >> don't know or care why) on indiana-discuss: >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/thread.html >> >> In the bug Sean pointed to, a number of the other packages were desktop >> related. This makes me wonder (though I don't know how I'd know unless I >> dig through the source) if this is related to desktop changes. >> >> Thanks in advance for any info. >> >> - Matt >> > >
