[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Have you considered seperating in packages and give the freedom to build
> >>what ever you want (kernel, libc, base utils) like GNU tools? By following
> >>this method, you give more freedom to external distribution.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This is the wrong way to go.
> >
> >ON is not even complete. Why do you believe are flagdays needed?
> >This is a result of inconsistences in ON because it is incomplete,
> >you need a build machine that is very similar to the just crerated
> >ON release.
> >
> >This is not Linux but UNIX and if you like to compare, look at *BSD.
> >
> >
>
> *BSD have flag days for similar reasons to Solaris -
> when you change (for example) the major number of libc,
> chances are things will care about this.
*BSD does not have problems to compile in such a case but problems to upgrade
to the new binaries. If you do it in the wrong order things may fail in a way
that prevents further booting.
The main problem with Solaris ON is that it does not include everything you
need to dompile it (e.g. math.h) This forces you to have a build machine that
uses a version close to the build. While you could remove a lot of code from ON
whithout braking things, you could make the problems on flag days less big if
ON would be self containing.
Jörg
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