[illumos-Developer] HEADS UP: Illumos no longer depends upon the 'extras' pkg repository

[Joerg Schilling]

Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:

> With my integration of:
>
> changeset:   12787:c8c5cc99535f
> tag:         tip
> user:        Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net>
> date:        Sun Aug 15 15:22:57 2010 -0400
> description:
> 	29 illumos build should not depend upon 'extras' pkg repository
>
> Illumos no longer has build dependencies upon the OpenSolaris 'extras'
> pkg repository, which contained components that could only be
> distributed by Oracle.
>
> You may now safely remove the SUNWadmj, SUNWjsnmp, SUNWwbapi, SUNWwbcou
> and SUNWwbdev packages from your build machines.
>
> This comes at the expense of the DHCP server management tools no longer

This sounds very promising.

Messages like this could help to make people believe that Illumos really
can do somethig for the mencipation as a true OSS project soon.

Jörg

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