On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-developer < [email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, let's put it this way. We have an intention to remove wanboot from > illumos. If *anyone* will be impacted by this, or realistically > anticipates being impacted by it (recognizing that it only affects SPARC, > and that TFTP network booting will remain possible), please speak up NOW. > Something else: SVR4 packaging uses wanboot code to provide its http client support. I would be more than happy for that code and the ability for pkgadd to directly retrieve packages via http to be removed. (In Tribblix, packages are retrieved using higher-level facilities - the builtin functionality in pkgadd is rubbish.) I would also love to see the package signing in SVR4 packaging (which is another openssl dependency) be removed as well; I would personally clean out both the openssl and wanboot dependencies at the same time. I may even be able to find time to do some of the work. (As a maintainer of one of the SVR4-based distros, I feel reasonably qualified to comment on this area. I do know, however, that Martin is of the opposite view and regards keeping network retrieval in pkgadd as important.) Although if we carry on at this rate we won't have any consumers of openssl left. > This may well impact folks with SPARC based distributions. I'm not aware > of any of those that support wanboot, but this serves as advance warning. > > If you care at all about wanboot, SPEAK UP NOW or forever hold your peace. > > I'm cross-posting to illumos-discuss just in case someone there has a > configuration where this is an issue. > > Distribution maintainers, an affirmative reply that you've received this, > and can confirm that you have no impact (or that you do), would be > appreciated. > On behalf of Tribblix, I can cheerfully state that I would love to see wanboot get torched. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
