On 3/30/09, James C. McPherson <james.mcpher...@sun.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:16:07 +0100
>  Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> wrote:
>
>  > "Mark J. Nelson" wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Gah.
>  > >
>  > > I guess my dirty little secret is out: I'm an OpenSolaris user, on all
>  > > of my systems (SunRay server and laptop.)
>  > >
>  > > Anyway, as of my webrev changes earlier today, the onnv version of
>  > > webrev will only work with ksh93.  This works on OpenSolaris systems,
>  > > where /usr/bin/ksh is ksh93.  It breaks on Solaris Nevada systems, where
>  > > /usr/bin/ksh is ksh88.
>  > >
>  > > As of my followup integration (which just completed), the #! line is
>  > > correct, and SNV and OpenSolaris users will continue to function.  The
>  > > tools will be propagated in the next 30-60 minutes.
>  > >
>  > > In the mean time, you may use "/path/to/ksh93 /path/to/webrev" to get
>  > > the correct behavior.
>  > >
>  > > My apologies for not catching this in my testing.
>  >
>  > Erm... why is this a "flag day" ? OS/Net has ksh93 since Solaris 11/B72
>  > and right now SXCE won't even boot without /usr/bin/ksh93 (don't worry,
>  > ksh93 is (like ksh88) delivered via the "SUNWcsu" package and therefore
>  > available on all systems).
>
>
>
> It's a flag day because there are lots of people who work on
>  Solaris 10 backports who prefer to use the onnv version of
>  webrev(1) - and if they run the onnv version on an s10 system
>  then they'll have problems.

Why doesn't Sun backport ksh93 to Solaris 10?

Holger
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