In this case Alexander wrote the relevant message to the ML so the issue seems to be more the visibility of such information: nothing broken has shipped per se. I forwarded the heads-up to illumos-dev. Ideally yes what you suggest should be done, are you willing to be the maintainer of such illumos-gate clone ? That seems a very good step. Regards,
Aurelien On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Nikola M <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/28/15 12:36 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > >> We now have Perl 5.22 as our main Perl version. During Perl 5.22 >> integration >> some old packages, including Apache 1.3, MySQL 5.1 and Perl 5.10, were >> removed. >> >> We deliver all perl 5.22 modules which were delivered for Perl 5.16 >> earlier. Almost all perl 5.16 modules and Perl 5.16 are kept (the only >> removed module is graphviz perl module, which had conflicts with Perl 5.22 >> module). >> > > Illumos source needs patching after downloading, related to Perl update > (and others in the future) > so it does not affect illumos build on OI and prevent people changing > distribution, because they are not able to build it by default. > > http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2015/07/sort/time/page/15/entry/16:377/20150730233009:6F36E180-3734-11E5-B06C-F4BBA9DDBECD/ > > Therefore keeping and maintaining mirror of illumos source code with OI > patches, like any other distro. > Also shipping broken stuff that does not work should not be done. > > It also pull some other questions, would pulling from external sources > every time one wants to build, with or without checking hashes is a good > practice. > Every distro needs to deliver not only it's patches and ways of making > packages, but having source code itself available on request to users, to > fulfill licencing requrements. > > >> Removal of Apache 1.3 means that you can't longer build old illumos-gate >> versions. Luckily, illumos-gate builds nicely with Apache 2.2 since >> February. >> >> We suggest you to use either percona-server or mariadb instead of mysql. >> >> Removal of Perl 5.10 is more important. It was a relict inherited from OI >> /dev and still is used in OI /dev to build illumos-gate. This means that to >> build illumos-gate >> 1) you should have runtime/perl-522/module/sun-solaris and >> library/perl-5/xml-parser-522 installed (they will be installed >> automatically on pkg update), >> 2) you should set >> export PERL_VERSION="5.22" >> export PERL_PKGVERS="-522" >> >> in your illumos.sh. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LARCHER Aurélien | KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication Work: +46 (0) 8 790 71 42 | Lindstedtsvägen 5, Plan 4, 100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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