Peter Tribble wrote: > Are Pre-SVR4 packages supported in Solaris? >
Good question. I don't recall the answer. I tend to doubt they'd work. I don't know where you'd find them these days. > I have no idea what an SVR3 style package looks like, and I don't think > I've ever come across one. But there are one or two odd bits of code > (in usr/src/lib/libadm/common/pkgnmchk.c in ON, for example, or in > src/bundled/app/pkgcmds/libinst/psvr4ck.c in the install source, or > presvr4.c > in pkgadd and pkgrm) that appear to be leftovers of SVR3 package support. > > Is there a reason why this old stuff cannot be ripped out? > Depends if there's a branding test that requires us to support it, which is a question we might have to run by some standards & branding experts. I don't see any practical use for that functionality, but maybe someone else does. Dave
