Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-24 Thread SHwareSyst
This is my take on the discussion so far: As the method of forcing an environment to be POSIX conforming is implementation-defined in XBD 2, this method should be part of the conformance questionnaire, for both booting into this environment before the interactive shell starts, for freestand

Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-24 Thread Stephane CHAZELAS
2017-04-24 11:42:12 +0200, Joerg Schilling: [...] > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > That is incorrect. The "update XXX" naming has always been internal to > > Solaris. > > Solaris 10 and prior releases used the date for the marketing name > > ("Solaris 7 > > 8/99", "Solaris 10 8/07", and so on).

Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sorry for the binary content in the first attempt to reply Alan Coopersmith wrote: > That is incorrect. The "update XXX" naming has always been internal to > Solaris. > Solaris 10 and prior releases used the date for the marketing name ("Solaris 7 > 8/99", "Solaris 10 8/07", and so on). S

Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
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Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/21/17 08:47 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Stephane Chazelas wrote: OK, "Solaris 11 and its maintenance releases" make more sense than "Solaris 11 FCS and later". Thanks for clarifying. This is how I thought Solaris always was maintained: There are updates to a specific version th

Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-21 Thread Andrew Josey
hi Stephane, Joerg, all Further comments below > On 21 Apr 2017, at 16:13, Stephane Chazelas > wrote: > {snip} >> You will have to contact Oracle if you need more information. >> The certification requires the supplier to supply a compliant system >> configuration if a buyer wishes to pro

Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stephane Chazelas wrote: > OK, "Solaris 11 and its maintenance releases" make more sense > than "Solaris 11 FCS and later". Thanks for clarifying. This is how I thought Solaris always was maintained: There are updates to a specific version that grant not to break interfaces. In

Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-21 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2017-04-21 15:22:53 +0100, Andrew Josey: [...] > This means that Oracle commits to keep Solaris 11 and its > maintenance releases in compliance, and that if a buyer orders > a compliant system it will be delivered in the correct > configuration. OK, "Solaris 11 and its maintenance releases" make m

Re: Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-21 Thread Andrew Josey
hi Stephane Comments below > On 21 Apr 2017, at 13:22, Stephane Chazelas > wrote: > > Hello, > > today I found out that Solaris 11 didn't have the POSIX > utilities installed by default unless you did a full desktop or > server install (or installed the xcu4/xcu6 relevevant packages > by hand

Solaris 11 certification and broken links at www.opengroup.org

2017-04-21 Thread Stephane Chazelas
Hello, today I found out that Solaris 11 didn't have the POSIX utilities installed by default unless you did a full desktop or server install (or installed the xcu4/xcu6 relevevant packages by hand) https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360359/posix-awk-on-solaris-11 Solaris 11 being SUSv3 cer