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

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 18.11.24 um 12:52 schrieb 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.
>
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The last ISO release was end of October.