Craig S. Bell wrote:
> Alan, what will happen with old-style packages with dependencies on other
> SUNW* packages -- will there a way to artificially fulfill these? It seems
> like it will take some ongoing effort to continue supporting the SysV format.
IPS currently puts entries into the SVR4 package database for the
packages installed via IPS that have information about the "legacy"
package they replaced, so that package dependencies can be satisfied.
> Let me play devil's advocate: If people have the option to continue using the
> old package system (with it's action scripting capabilities), then could that
> slow adoption of the new pkg format? Or is that just the cost of providing
> compatibility?
Did providing SunOS 4 binary compatibility slow the adoption of
providing Solaris 2 native binaries? (I don't know - it was before
my time - I suspect it's just part of the cost of providing
compatibility.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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