On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 11:59 +0200, Steve McKinty wrote:
> Why are these "not relevant"? In my experience they are mostly
> used in scripts and Makefiles, to ensure that the right code path
> is taken. Won't removing them break older configure-style scripts,
> i.e. ones that test things like "if [ ! vax ]" etc.?
>
> Is the gain of removal worth more than potential breakage of
> older (especially FOSS) code?
Most such code is developed for Linux these days, and uses different
approaches (primarily parsing uname output) to determine the machine and
model type.
I've never seen a script that would misbehave if these tools were
absent. (I've seen scripts that would misbehave if they existed and
returned a false positive, but even those cases are rare... I think
autoconf in particular does not use them.)
In case its not clear, here's another +1 on this case.
- Garrett
>
> Steve
>
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> Peter Dennis wrote:
> > I'm sponsoring this case for Venky Tv.
> >
> > Required release binding:
> > Patch binding for the announcement and marking as Obsolete.
> > Minor binding for the removal.
> >
> > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI
> > This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All
> > rights reserved.
> > 1. Introduction
> > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
> > EOF legacy processor type truth values
> > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
> > Author: Venky TV
> > 1.3 Date of This Document:
> > 08 June, 2010
> > 4. Technical Description
> > 1. Introduction
> > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
> > EOF legacy processor type truth values
> >
> > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
> > Venky TV
> >
> > 1.3. Date of This Document:
> > June 04, 2010
> >
> >
> > 4. Technical Description:
> >
> > 4.1. Details:
> >
> > This projects aims to remove processor type truth values in
> > /usr/bin which are no longer relevant -- namely, iAPX286, i286,
> > i860, pdp11, u3b, u3b2, u3b5, u3b15, vax, and u370.
> >
> > 4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
> >
> > 6958555 Remove processor type truth which are no longer relevant
> >
> > 4.5. Interfaces:
> >
> > The following interfaces will be deleted:
> >
> > /usr/bin/iAPX286
> > /usr/bin/i286
> > /usr/bin/i860
> > /usr/bin/pdp11
> > /usr/bin/u3b
> > /usr/bin/u3b2
> > /usr/bin/u3b5
> > /usr/bin/u3b15
> > /usr/bin/vax
> > /usr/bin/u370
> >
> > 4.6. Doc Impact:
> >
> > The man pages for each of these utilities will be removed.
> >
> > iAPX286.1 i286.1 i860.1 pdp11.1 u3b.1
> > u3b2.1 u3b5.1 u3b15.i vax.i u370.1
> >
> > 4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
> >
> > All these are part of the SUNWcs package. There is no impact
> > on install/upgrade.
> >
> > 6. Resources and Schedule
> > 6.4. Steering Committee requested information
> > 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
> > ON
> > 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
> > 6.6. ARC Exposure: open
> >
>
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