[OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 1/10/24 01:33, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 04:08:13PM -0600, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
>> For the CDE packages, we don't ship an entire CDE, right? So all they can do
> 
> We do ship this:
> 
> $ pkg list -a | grep '\<cde\>'
> cde/calendar-manager-server                       0.5.11-2013.0.0.0          ---
> cde/cde-runtime                                   0.5.11-2013.0.0.0          ---
> cde/cde-utilities                                 0.5.11-2013.0.0.0          ---
> cde/help-viewer                                   0.5.11-2013.0.0.0          ---
> consolidation/cde/cde-incorporation               0.5.11-2013.0.0.0          i--
> $
> 
> I do not know how complete it is.

It is very much incomplete - that's the set we kept for Solaris 11/OpenSolaris
after removing the bulk of CDE. The CDE desktop & GUI applications are all gone.
What's left is a few binary compatibility packages for 3rd party applications
that used the CDE libraries, shipped their help docs in the CDE helpviewer
format, or called a small handful of CDE helper utilities.  The calendar server
was also retained so that servers could move to OpenSolaris/Solaris 11 and still
support calendars for CDE desktop users running on Solaris 10 still.

The versions you have are known to have a number of security bugs, as has been
reported via Oracle's security bulletins over the past 13 years.

-- 
         -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
          Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris