Tom Mueller wrote: > IIRC, when this was first sent out, there was the intent that pkg(5) > would still run on 2.4. But based on your comments at the end of > 10485, I see that after that bug is fixed, then pkg(5) is no longer > expected to run on 2.4.
That's correct, though if there's a need, we should be able to do it. The only changes which aren't backwards compatible are the hashlib bits. > If 2.4 isn't going to be supported, then maybe the Uuid25.py file > should be removed and we should just use the uuid module from the > Python library. Good catch, thanks. > About the python dependency analysis tests, I've been looking at > those tests this week relative to getting them to run on other > platforms. Even the other Unix-like platforms do not have files > such as /lib/svc/method/svc-pkg-depot and > /usr/xpg4/lib/libcurses.so.1. I can file a bug for this, but I was > wondering if you had more thoughts about what the bug should > actually say. Should tests only depend on files that are checked > into our workspace, rather than from the file system? Those tests are broken in a number of ways. I think Bart was actually looking at removing them entirely because they cause the image at / to be modified in some situations, though perhaps he and Brock found a way to solve the problem in a less extreme fashion. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
