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

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Udo

We unfortunately cannot do that as the amount of packages being updated 
creates far too big metadata. Thus if we would keep such long history 
pkg installation times become unbearable.

Donations to the current machine fund or contributions to IPS are 
greatly welcome.

-Till

On 18.11.24 12:52, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> 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 at 0.5.11-2024.0.0.22411
>               to
>             pkg://openindiana.org/driver/network/ 
> mlxcx at 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.
> 
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