> Dennis Clarke writes: >> > This is an old version that does not yet know about fine grained privs >> > and as Blastwave does primarily supports Solaris 8 we need to decide how >> > to support cdrecord on Blastwave in future. >> > >> >> ** WRONG ** > > Really?
Yes Really. :-P Blastwave does NOT primarily supports Solaris 8. Blastwave builds all the software on Solaris 8 servers in order to ensure that we have no problems with users that have Solaris 8 or 9 or 10. >> The software package at Blastwave ( built by you ) is built on Solaris 8 >> such that we can rest assured that it runs as expected for users with >> Solaris 8 and 9 and 10 and Nevada. If the package does not run with >> perfect backward compatibility in Solaris 9 or 10 or Nevada then the issue >> is with Solaris and not with the software built on Solaris 8. > > It does run with compatibility. Is that a flaw or some sort of a weakness in the software? Is a binary that is compiled on Solaris 8 with Sun ONE Studio 8 any more or less able to run on a Solaris 10 server? Let's dispense with the 64-bit issue and the fact that most ( almost all ) of the software at Blastwave will run on a Sparc 20 ( sun4m ) with the exception of a few rare cases. Simply looking at some binary foo that was compiled from foo.c will we see any lack of functionality when it runs on Solaris 10 because it was built on a Solaris 8 server? > The only issue is that Solaris 10 has more features than does Solaris > 9 or 8, and software written and compiled for Solaris 8 can't > necessarily take advantage of those new features. In this case, S10 > (and up) has fine-grained privileges, while those older releases do > not. That sounds like a packaging issue and has nothing to do with the actual software binary. > That's not a failure of Solaris. If it were, we'd never be able to > add a new feature ever again. :-/ that would be a bad thing. Let's all go back to Solaris 2.5.1 on x86. or NOT Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
