Brian, On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 02:16 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > True, although pkgbuild does support some Solaris/OpenSolaris specific > extensions, and it might be good to highlight those a bit more.
I agree that these need to be better documented. > For example, one thing I notice is that the new "IPS_package_name" > and "Meta(info.classification)" keys cause syntax errors if you try > to use an older version of pkgbuild. Compatibility of the spec file format is maintained in the opposite direction: your old spec files should work with new releases of pkgbuild. > It would be nice if pkgbuild > had better backwards compatibility support and provided some mechanism > to allow people who just want to build SVR5 packages a way to tell > pkgbuild to ignore keys that provide features that are not going to be > used anyway. While there have been many recent additions to support IPS, new features are not limited to those. Generally speaking, if you need to build spec files that make use of new features, you have to upgrade to a release that supports those features. Laca _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
