Hi Riccardo, > Am 20.04.2015 um 14:43 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>: > Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> Updating gnulinks is tricky. It goes like this: /opt/csw/gnu contains links >> to >> GNU programs without the „g“-prefix. Historically these links were shipped by >> CSWgnulinks. Then we got smarter and each packages shipped his own links >> (like CSWgmake ships /opt/csw/gnu/make) and they were removed one by one from >> CSWgnulinks. Both the updated package (e.g. CSWgmake) and CSWgnulinks need to >> be updated in sync and uploaded in the same run. As there have been no >> releases >> on Solaris 9 you need to investigate starting from the version of CSWgnulinks >> shipped in Solaris 9 which links have been updated and upload only that to >> Solaris 9 catalog. I suggest you undo the change to gnulinks/trunk and make >> a new branch for Solaris 9. Please keep in mind at the moment the Solaris 9 >> catalog works and it should prio 1 to not leave it in broken state. > > If I understand correctly, it means that gnulinks shouldn't be necessary and > that I need to remove link after link if i update the packages on Solaris 9 > and for now I should remove only the things provided by binutils and in the > future new stuff i would try to update?
Right. > Explain e more about the branch, I think this is the part I asked many times > on how to handle diversities between solaris versions, right? > Tell me how to work with branches in mgar... like how to do it, branch each > single package? I suppos we want to have some sort of "solaris 9" branch and > keep the differences as small as possible That depends. For gnulinks the packages are completely different so I would just make a copy of trunk to branches/solaris9. For other packages which share almost all of the code you may add the PACKAGING_PLATFORMS and use conditional assignments. If in doubt, branch for Solaris 9 as the changes are usually not needed in Solaris 10 and essentially the focus is going forward to 11. Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
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