[oi-dev] How to get build-essential for older OS release.

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 09-11-2024 11:52, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In General if you want to develop drivers for your HBA's we are happy 
> that you do, but could you please do so on a modern OS basis? I don't 
> know why one of your customers wants to still use the Old OpenIndiana 
> version or why you still want to but in general that sounds like a 
> really bad idea. We do not provide security updates for such older 
> versions and are definetly not paid to do so. So you are on your own 
> there and are essentially ontop of your own fork. You can do that but we 
> do not provide gratis support for backporting. If you want to make 
> drivers for illumos to sell your HBA's please use the current upstream 
> version or develop together with illumos folks inside of illumos-gate.
> 

In principle, it's ok to cutoff the supported OI versions at some
point, but I today I found that this cutoff is made far too early:
Cannot install driver mlxcx:
pkg install: No matching version of driver/network/mlxcx can be installed:
   Reject:  pkg://openindiana.org/driver/network/mlxcx@0.5.11-2024.0.0.22411
              to
            pkg://openindiana.org/driver/network/mlxcx@0.5.11-2024.0.0.22432
   Reason:  This version is excluded by installed incorporation 
consolidation/osnet/osnet-incorporation at 0.5.11-2024.0.0.22256

And that's on a system that's not even 4 month behind head.
At least, the supported versions should be kept reaching back
to the last ISO release, that would be about 6-7 month.
-- 
Dr.Udo Grabowski  Inst.of Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT
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