RE: Please review nzbget

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:41 -0600, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> > Hm. This is not good. But what exactly can I do here, now?
> > 
> > I can hardly patch converter/uulib nor the upstream...
> > 
> > Somehow implement a message that this pkg is not supported on
> > Solaris 9
> > due to a broken dependency? If so, how is that done properly?
> > 
> > What are alternatives?
> 
> * Maybe solaris-pkg-people@ could do some patching on uulib?  (I'll admit that I'm not interested enough to do it myself at this time.  If correct patches were provided to upstream, who knows, maybe they would be incorporated and an update released.)

Could you ask them, please, with a detailled description? I don't have
any kind of solaris at hand so I cannot recreate it. My suns all run on
NetBSD.


> * Mark uulib as NOT_FOR_PLATFORM Solaris?

I think that's more appropriate, yes, but probably it should be
mentioned in packages depending on uulib, too.


> * Find alternative to uulib and make nzbget work with that?

That would mean to (partly) rewrite nzbget, not a compelling thought
considering the cause for this. And it would have to be checked with
every new release again...I don't think that this a good solution.


- Volkmar


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