OpenPKG CVS Repository
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Server: cvs.openpkg.org Name: Michael Schloh
Root: /e/openpkg/cvs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Module: openpkg-doc Date: 02-Aug-2002 17:49:58
Branch: HEAD Handle: 2002080216495800
Modified files:
openpkg-doc/handbook openpkg.xml
Log:
Corrected prerequisites according to the policy:
FreeBSD 4.[0-4] und FreeBSD 5.0 ist "known to work", FreeBSD
4.[56] ist "officially supported". Debian 2.2 ist officially
supported, Debian 3.0 known to work. Solaris 2.8 ist
officially supported, Solaris 2.[679] ist known to work.
Summary:
Revision Changes Path
1.52 +19 -15 openpkg-doc/handbook/openpkg.xml
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Index: openpkg-doc/handbook/openpkg.xml
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$ cvs diff -u -r1.51 -r1.52 openpkg.xml
--- openpkg-doc/handbook/openpkg.xml 2 Aug 2002 15:27:16 -0000 1.51
+++ openpkg-doc/handbook/openpkg.xml 2 Aug 2002 15:49:58 -0000 1.52
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- FreeBSD 4.[123456], Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, Sun Solaris 2.[6789]
+ (Un)officially supported OS
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -925,20 +925,24 @@
As a practicality, the current OpenPKG has been implemented to run on
three of the most commonly found Internet server platforms<footnote>
<para>Precisely, the officially supported operating system version
- numbers are Sun Solaris 2.[6789], Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, and FreeBSD
- 4.[123456].</para></footnote>. Sun Solaris (SPARC), Linux (iX86), and
- FreeBSD (iX86) fully support all functionality of OpenPKG and have
- native packages built to order on OpenPKG servers supplying packages
- to the official OpenPKG ftp server <ulink
- url='ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/'>ftp://ftp.openpkg.org</ulink> and web site
- <ulink url='http://www.openpkg.org/'>OpenPKG</ulink>. Additionally,
- RedHat Linux (iX86), Mandrake Linux (iX86), Solaris (iX86), NetBSD
- (SPARC and iX86), OpenBSD (iX86), HP-UX (PA/IPF), and Compaq Tru64
- (Alpha) operating systems are unofficially supported. In most cases,
- these target platforms succeeded in bootstrapping and later package
- installations. They remain with only unofficial support however,
- because they are not in enough day-to-day use during OpenPKG testing
- to guarantee complete functionality on a regular basis.
+ numbers are Sun Solaris 2.8 (SPARC), Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (iX86), and
+ FreeBSD 4.[56] (iX86).</para></footnote>. These platforms fully
+ support all functionality of OpenPKG and have native packages built to
+ order on OpenPKG servers supplying packages to the official OpenPKG
+ ftp server <ulink
+ url='ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/'>ftp://ftp.openpkg.org</ulink> and web
+ site <ulink url='http://www.openpkg.org/'>OpenPKG</ulink>.
+ Additionally, Solaris 2.[679] (SPARC), FreeBSD 4.[0-4] (iX86) and
+ FreeBSD 5.0 (iX86), and Debian 3.0 (iX86) are unofficially supported
+ due to lack of testing resources (and number of brains and hands) at
+ OpenPKG ground zero. In other words, they are not in enough day-to-day
+ use during OpenPKG package testing to guarantee complete functionality
+ on a regular basis. Due to mounting interest, other platforms have
+ been tried, tested, and are in use. They are known to work, but remain
+ on the list of unoffically supported platforms for similar time and
+ resource limits. These unofficially supported platforms are RedHat
+ Linux (iX86), Mandrake Linux (iX86), Solaris (iX86), NetBSD (SPARC and
+ iX86), OpenBSD (iX86), HP-UX (PA/IPF), and Compaq Tru64 (Alpha).
</para>
<para>
The platform requirements of OpenPKG are independent of its use, and
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