Darren J Moffat wrote:
John Sonnenschein wrote:
Hello,
As everyone probably knows, the one thing keeping a fully open-source
OpenSolaris distro from happening is the godforsaken libc_i18n.a in
closed_bins. The rest of closed_bins can be replaced with BSD/GNU code
should the distro manager deem it neccessary.
I'm not sure everything else in closed_bins can be replaced with BSD/GNU
code.
For example, while in theory it should be possible to use Racoon rather
than the closed_bins in.iked it is a non trivial amount of work. If you
don't do that you don't have any IKE for IPsec. Thats just one example.
Right, but I think what John was driving at was that those other
closed-binaries aren't required to build.
The only closed binaries required to build are libc_i18n and libdisasm
(on sparc only, it's open on x86). So if we can replace/reengineer
those two - then we at least have a minimal completely-open build.
cheers,
steve
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