[oi-dev] Latest ksh93 changes in illumos-gate have impacts on REQUIRED_PACKAGES

Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu
Sat Mar 27 18:51:23 UTC 2021


In regard to: Re: [oi-dev] Latest ksh93 changes in illumos-gate have...:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 09:41:12AM +0100, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
>
>> illumos-gate has recently merged the following changes
>>     2755 split ksh93 from core package
>>     13460 ksh93 tests should be moved out of usr/demo
>>     518 ksh documentation should be moved out of SUNWcsr
>>
>> This has impacts on our REQUIRED_PACKAGES settings for many packages.
>> Most, if not all occurrences of
>>     REQUIRED_PACKAGES += SUNWcs
>> need to be replaced by
>>     REQUIRED_PACKAGES += shell/ksh93
>
> Is that really true?  I would have thought that all products would
> require SUNWcs, but only ones that included ksh scripts would require
> shell/ksh93 .

+1, I was trying to make the same point in the email I just sent.

I don't think *any* SUNWcs should be replaced.  I think shell/ksh93
should be *added* in some places.

Tim
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