Darren J Moffat writes:
> While I appreciate all the testing and work that has been done and the
> fact that the Makefiles look for /opt/onbld and /opt/SUNWonbld I really
> don't think this change is worth it. This seems like change for the
> sake of complying to the exact letter of some best practice. Is there a
> real problem being solved by no longer using the /opt/onbld path ?
It's primarily so the package complies with Sun's own rules.
> Particularly when we are now less likely to use the SUNW prefix for
> various (I assume all obvious) reasons.
I'm not too certain about this: even when the Sun stock ticker symbol
changed from SUNW to JAVA, no packages were changed to match, and I'd hope
this will stay this way ;-(
> I'd really like to hear from other ON developers on this.
Agreed. On the other hand, it would have been good if a comment like this
had been made earlier in the game, like in the CR ...
> If we are going to move the content of the on built tools I'd personally
> rather the default location was into /usr/bin if at all possible. That
> way once I'd bfu'd a machine bfu would be in an "obvious" place.
I'd prefer to keep SUNWonbld in /opt because it can easily be shared
between different machines that way.
> The change for 6414833 is very valuable though, particularly helpful for
> installations with multiple different versions of the package installed
> and shared over NFS.
Indeed: that's what I made it for.
Rainer
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