[illumos-Developer] review: nuke staleness from svr4pkg

[Peter Tribble]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:
> Hi Garrett!
>
>
>> http://mexico.purplecow.org/gdamore/webrev/presvr4/
>
> I have not looked at this, and I agree with a) through f)
> except:
>
>> c) custom hacks for *patches*.  We will never, ever, ever support
>> partial package patching on illumos.  In fact, the problems with it are
>> the most oft-cited reason by the IPS team for throwing away SVR4 and
>> inventing something new.
>
> I am sure you are aware of the fact that this will prevent all
> third-party products (including Sun/Oracle products) from being
> patched on an Illumos-based distro, ever.
>
> While I am all for cutting cruft and dead code, I think that such
> a step would needlessly remove much of the Solaris compatibility
> that Illumos has.  If I had voting rights in Illumos, I would give
> lots of -1's to that idea.

Patching will never work in any event. patchadd and friends are
closed source and long gone. Removing the horrid hacks in the
underlying pkg code makes no difference.

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